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Early Quotes
On the things that take root early, for better or worse.
"Early" covers a range of beginnings here — gossip that starts young inside military culture and never really stops, and teenage years spent shopping almost exclusively secondhand. See Early Life quotes for more.
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Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.
- Moral
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By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
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I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.
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I was one of the early folks at eBay, and by 1999, it was completely overrun by consultants from McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. It went from being a cool, fun startup to an MBA factory.
- Priest
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I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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There are a lot of bars and shoe stores in my early books.
- Economic
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Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
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