#beg

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships. ↗

— Tracy Austin

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Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk. ↗

— Roy Ayers

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. ↗

— Russell Banks

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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. ↗

— Bob Balaban

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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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