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Begin Quotes
Nothing happens until something begins.
Beginnings get treated with real respect in this collection, whether that means tracing a whole tradition of learning back to one foundational source, or the blunt advice that the only way through the first step is simply taking it. There's little patience here for overthinking a start.
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- Learning
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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To begin, begin.
- First
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In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
- Because
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I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the works of William Shakespeare.
- Mind
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Begin with the end in mind.
- Certainty
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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
- Order
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We shouldn't think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest.
- Independent
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Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.
- Sound
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
- Material
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You begin with the possibilities of the material.
- Think
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
- Fools
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