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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

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Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies. ↗

— Robert James Graves

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Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) ↗

— Teacher David McCullough

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I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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