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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
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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?'"

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

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

"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."

"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."


"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."


"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"


"We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet."


"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
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