#beg

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #borrowing #interest #just #lending

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. ↗

— Barry Levinson

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said? ↗

— Clifford Longley

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You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone. ↗

— Mark Caine

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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. ↗

— George Lucas

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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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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. ↗

— John Major

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