#starting point

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. ↗

— William Ames

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The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. ↗

— John Hull

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. ↗

— Janet Frame

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If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ↗

— Rob Portman

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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ↗

— John Galliano

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The search for religion is the starting point of thought. ↗

— Xu Zhimo

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