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Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration · J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning · Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning · Menachem Begin

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. – Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy. – Chuang-tzu
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. – Henry Louis Mencken
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. – Clive Staples Lewis
Let the change begin with your choices this very moment. – Bryant McGill
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop. – Henry Louis Mencken
My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84) – Ronald Reagan
Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. – Matrix, The
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. – Madonna
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. – H. L. Mencken
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence. – Erich Fromm
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. – James Carroll
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. – Anzia Yezierska
When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world’s false lessons of fear and control. – Bryant McGill
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. – Charles Bukowski
Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things. – Robert Smith
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up. – James Baldwin
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. – R. D. Laing
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. – Robert Benchley
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. – Hillary Rodham Clinton

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