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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold Kushner

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ↗

— Carlos Santana

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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