#beg

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#any #anybody #been #beginning #commanded

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#alone #beginning #freedoms #indeed #right

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#back #been #beginning #brady #championship

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. ↗

— John Dryden

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I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#choose #ends #god #i #know

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#begin #capacities #compensate #else #forever

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty