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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
[ Possibilities ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
[ Voting ]
John Quincy Adams
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From small beginnings come great things.
[ Action ]
American Proverb
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72 votes
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
[ Life and Living ]
Minna Antrim
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
[ Confession ]
St. Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
[ Fear ]
Marcus Aurelius
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When great questions end, little parties begin.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Walter Bagehot
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
[ Beginning ]
Ivy Baker
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
[ Quotations ]
James Baldwin
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
[ Ideals and Idealism ]
Stanley Baldwin
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59 votes
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Toni Cade Bambara
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With renunciation life begins.
[ Abstinence ]
Amelia E. Barr
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
[ Men ]
Sir James M. Barrie
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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.
[ Belief ]
Saint Bartholomew
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
[ Autobiography ]
John Berger
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
[ Childhood ]
Ambrose Bierce
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
[ Anger ]
H. G. Bohn
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
[ Biography ]
Fawn M. Brodie
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52 votes
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
[ Charity ]
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks books
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Heywood Broun
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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
[ Books - Reading ]
Les Brown
Les Brown books
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When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[ Self-control ]
Robert Browning
Robert Browning books
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When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[ Self-Conflict ]
Sir Frederick Browning
Sir Frederick Browning books
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64 votes
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
[ Repentance ]
Lord Byron
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63 votes
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
[ Greatness ]
Albert Camus
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52 votes
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
[ Humankind ]
Elias Canetti
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37 votes
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
[ Beginning ]
Thomas Carlyle
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48 votes
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
[ Techniques ]
Raymond Chandler
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
[ Beginning ]
Chinese Proverb
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
[ Names ]
Chinese Proverb
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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
[ Action ]
Chinese Proverb
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
[ Silence ]
Winston Churchill
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
[ Planning ]
Marcus T. Cicero
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60 votes
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
[ Goals ]
Alexander Clark
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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64 votes
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
[ Wickedness ]
Confucius
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
[ Worship ]
Calvin Coolidge
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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
[ Mind ]
Norman Cousins
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
[ President ]
Clarence Darrow
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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
[ Life and Living ]
P. L. Debevoise
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
[ Dishonesty ]
Democritus
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
[ Opportunity ]
Demosthenes
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
[ Youth ]
Sir John Denham
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
[ Charity ]
Charles Dickens
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A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
[ Words ]
Emily Dickinson
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
[ Justice ]
William O. Douglas
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
[ Power ]
John Dryden
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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
[ Marriage ]
Alexis Dupuy
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56 votes
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
[ Death and Dying ]
Henry Van Dyke
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