#begin

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#beginning #best #ending #friendship #laughter

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make. ↗

— Antony Beevor

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I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up. ↗

— Paul Begala

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This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing. ↗

— Tom Berenger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. ↗

— John Berger

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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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