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Beginning Quotes
"Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour."
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"Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning."
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"The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire."
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"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation."
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"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
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"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."
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"I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in."
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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
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"At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up."
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"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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"I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot."
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"What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country."
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"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good."
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"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."
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"I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way."
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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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"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
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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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"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday."
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"What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on."
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"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place."
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"He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend."
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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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"I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration."
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"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."
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"At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard."
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"I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more."
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"It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."
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"The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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