#begins

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

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It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ↗

— Mark Poster

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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All great change in America begins at the dinner table. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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