"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."

Beginning, Cruelty, Kindness

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"With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs."

David Coverdale, English Musician

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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."

Carly Fiorina, American Businessman

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

Pablo Casals, Spanish Musician

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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."

Christine Lahti, American Actress

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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, 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."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."

Alex Campbell, Canadian Politician

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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Liz Smith, American Journalist

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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

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"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."

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

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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

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"The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger."

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

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