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Beginning/Ending |
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| "A
journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." |
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--
Confucius |
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| "The man who removes a
mountain begins by carrying away small stones." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
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| "The important thing is
somehow to begin." |
| -- Henry Moore |
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| "The beginning is half of
every action." |
| -- Greek Proverb |
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| "Everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was." |
| -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| "What
we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a
beginning. The end is where we start from." |
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--
T. S. Eliot, American-born English poet |
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| "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises." |
| -- Demosthenes |
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| "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia." |
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-- Charles Schultz |
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| "When I stand before God at the end of my
life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent
left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." |
| -- Erma Louise Bombeck (b. 1927), American
writer, humorist |
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| "I don't want to get to the end of my life
and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well." |
| -- Diane Ackerman (b. 1948), American-born
writer |
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| "Whatever you can do or dream you can,
begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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| "A bad beginning makes a bad ending." |
| -- Euripides (480?-406 BC),
Greek dramatist |
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| "If I were to begin life again, I should
want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit
more." |
| -- Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
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“If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
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| -- Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer |
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"I shall tell you a great
secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every
day."
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--
Albert
Camus
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| “Cause
and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for
the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the
means, the fruit in the seed…. You cannot do wrong without
suffering wrong.” |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "Beginnings
and endings represent the same event from a different point of view.
The outcome of a crucial battle offers an example. For the victor of the battle, it is a beginning. For the vanquished,
it is the end." |
| --
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer
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| "Easy is right. Begin right and you are
easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is
to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy." |
| -- Chuang-Tzu (4th century BC), Chinese
philosopher |
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"The
opera isn't over till the fat lady sings."
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--
Dan Cook, Washington Post reporter |
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| "If you don't know where you're going,
you'll end up somewhere else." |
| -- Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian
psychiatrist |
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| "The mark of your ignorance is the depth
of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls
the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." |
| -- Richard David Bach (b. 1936), American
author |
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| "The conception of worth, that each person
is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction." |
| -- Felix Adler (1851-1933), American educator |
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| “Before
the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a
brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in
the crowd.” |
| -- I Ching |
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"When I
was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
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--
Gracie Allen
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| "Other things may change us, but we start
and end with the family." |
| -- Anthony Brandt (b. 1936), American writer |
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"Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
some say ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice." |
| --
Robert
Frost
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| "It is not death that a man should fear, but he
should fear never beginning to live." |
| -- Marcus Aelius Aurelius
(121-180 AD), Roman emperor, philosopher |
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| "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous
beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a
restaurant's revolving door." |
| -- Albert Camus (1913-60),
French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher |
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| "Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end,
by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as
well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all
dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible
piper." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "What we call results are beginnings." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is
progress. Working together is success." |
| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947),
American automobile manufacturer |
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| "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are
untidy." |
| -- John Galsworthy (1867-1933),
British writer, author |
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| "If we begin with certainties, we shall
end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in
them, we shall end in certainties." |
| -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English
philosopher |
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| "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful
undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any
venture." |
| -- William James (1842-1910),
American psychologist, philosopher |
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| "It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice --
there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is
nostalgia." |
| -- Frank Zappa |
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| "Man's main task in life is to give birth
to himself, to become what he potentially is." |
| -- Erich Fromm, American psychologist |
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| "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of
ending." |
| -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-82), American writer |
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| "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right
names." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
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| "When you reach the end of your rope, tie
a knot in it and hang on." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US
President |
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| "Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't
even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is." |
| -- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-73), 36th US
President |
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| “More
than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all
wars.” |
| -- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| "It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few
scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of
human affairs." |
| -- Stanislaw Ulam |
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| "In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's
interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the
boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.
... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth
with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its
cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace." |
| -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954),
American writer, author |
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| "The bird fights its way out of the egg.
The egg is the world. Whosoever will be born must destroy a
world." |
| -- Hermann Hesse |
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| "The world is round and the place which
may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." |
| -- George Baker (1877-1965), [Father Divine]
American religious leader |
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| "Whatever the one generation may learn
from the other, that which is genuinely human, no generation learns
from the foregoing ... Thus no generation has learned from another
to love, no generation begins at any other point than at the
beginning." |
| -- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| "There are two great rules in life, the
one general and the other particular. The first is that every one
can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the
general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more
or less of an exception to the general rule." |
| -- Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet,
author |
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| "Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least
to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." |
| -- Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-99), American
politician |
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| "The great end of life is not knowledge
but action." |
| -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), British
biologist |
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| "In the end the aggressors always destroy
themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get
along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a
triumph of cooperation and creativity." |
| -- Fritjof Capra |
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| "Mankind must put an end to war, or war
will put an end to mankind." |
| -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr |
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| "Now this is not the end. It is not even
the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the
beginning." |
| -- Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
(1874-1965), British statesman |
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| "Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter." |
| -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68),
African-American reverend, civil rights leader |
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| "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the end, the first and the last." |
| -- Revelations xxii. 13, The Bible |
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| "Carry the cross patiently, and with
perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you." |
| -- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), German monk |
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| "It is good to have an end to journey
toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." |
| -- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US author |
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| "Everything is determined, the beginning
as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is
determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings,
vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune,
intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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"And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make." |
| -- Lennon/McCartney, The Beatles |
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