#beginning

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

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In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. ↗

— Terence

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More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. ↗

— Harry Vardon

#beginning #carelessness #cause #lost #matches

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#discovery #knowledge #something #understand

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. ↗

— David Maraniss

#being #characteristics #characters #could #develop

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#buddhism #circle-of-life #creation-of-the-universe #creationism #god

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. ↗

— Jules Shear

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I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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