#beginning

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#dismantle #ever #government #pentagon #proposal

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. ↗

— Russell Baker

#among #beginnings #death #dramatic #flourish

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#being #harmony #life #lived #native

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#before #beginning #best #door #dressing

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie. ↗

— Peter Bart

#beginning #come #financing #half #many

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#all things #beginning #content #i #insoluble

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly