#beg

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#beg #declining #i #indulge #liberty

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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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. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#surprised #understand #wonder

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#beginning #championship #crazy #just #keep

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#bad #bad one #beginning #down #finally

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#also #beginning #best #both #coming

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#beginning #definition #europe #genocide #happened