"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Beginning, Beginnings

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

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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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."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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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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"In my beginning is my end."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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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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"I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it."

Jason Isaacs, English Actor

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

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"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

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"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."

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"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

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"Beginnings are always messy."

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"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

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"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

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"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

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"The French cook; we open tins."

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