#begins

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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

— Charles de Secondat

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