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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

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As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

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My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

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I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

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