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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ↗

— Democritus

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We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs. ↗

— John Denver

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In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#after #been #beginning #believed #blonde

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#beginning #differently #end #feel #film

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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