Quotes: beginning
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Terry Pratchett
English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works
1948-2015
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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