- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beginning Quotes
Where things actually start, according to the people who started them.
One of the more striking beginning quotes here comes from a composer who rejects the idea of a beginning or end at all, treating a body of work as one continuous piece. The Hope collection covers a related sense of looking forward.
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.
- Trend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
- Bureaucrat
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020