#begin

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. ↗

— George Lucas

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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ↗

— John Major

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I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints. ↗

— Lee Majors

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We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

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