#beginning

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ↗

— Horace

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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

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Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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Death is the beginning of something. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#death #something

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#end #revolution #stop #time

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#great #great things #things #woman

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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