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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

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

"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."

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being."

"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."

"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."
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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."

"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
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