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Beginning Quotes
"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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"The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process."
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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"We come to beginnings only at the end."
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"There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians."
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"I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off."
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"I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?"
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"For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start."
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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
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"I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning."
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"Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning."
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"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."
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"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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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."
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"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."
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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
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"I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end."
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"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."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."
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"I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such."
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"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."
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"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
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"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up."
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"That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end."
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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."
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