"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

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"There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity."

Unity

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

Adventure

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

War

"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

Control

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

Self

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

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"There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering."

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"It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."

Philosophy

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

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"Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said."

Reflection