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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. ↗

— John Osborne

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. ↗

— Anne Rice

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God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. ↗

— Bob Riley

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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972. ↗

— Sam Waterston

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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

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John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. ↗

— Max Cleland

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ↗