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title: "658 Began Quotes by 578 authors"
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> [It began as a mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/it-began-as-a-mistake/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“began. “And he failed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karice-bolton/began-and-he-failed/)

[Karice Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karice-bolton/)

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> [I began with nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haim-saban/i-began-with-nothing/)

[Haim Saban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haim-saban/)

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> [“my focus began to shift.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-focus-began-to-shift/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [So it all began.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foo-fighters/so-it-all-began/)

[Foo Fighters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/foo-fighters/)

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> [“Man began in God. You”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-ois-du-toit/man-began-in-god-you/)

[François Du Toit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-ois-du-toit/)

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> [Arithmetic has began to totter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottlob-frege/arithmetic-has-began-to-totter/)

[Gottlob Frege](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottlob-frege/)

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> [My life began with Ronnie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-reagan/my-life-began-with-ronnie/)

[Nancy Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-reagan/)

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> [I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-coles/i-was-precocious-so-i-began-reading-cosmo-when-i-was-12/)

[Joanna Coles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-coles/)

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> [“Mostly everything that exists began with a dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonia-cunningham-leverette/mostly-everything-that-exists-began-with-a-dream/)

[Sonia Cunningham Leverette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonia-cunningham-leverette/)

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> [“Thus began the Great Tar Fight...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/thus-began-the-great-tar-fight/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

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> [“It began as many a beginning does, with an end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-ryan/it-began-as-many-a-beginning-does-with-an-end/)

[Tom Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-ryan/)

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> [“Every invention began as an imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha/every-invention-began-as-an-imagination/)

[Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha/)

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> [I was about 17 when I began my career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bappi-lahiri/i-was-about-17-when-i-began-my-career/)

[Bappi Lahiri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bappi-lahiri/)

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> [The world began without man, and it will end without him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-levi-strauss/the-world-began-without-man-and-it-will-end-without-him/)

[Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-levi-strauss/)

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> [A friendship than can end, never really began.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-friendship-than-can-end-never-really-began/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I know, its over and it never really began but in my heart it was so real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-know-its-over-and-it-never-really-began-but-in-my-heart-it-was-so/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-gellhorn/i-found-out-about-the-spanish-war-because-i-was-in-germany-when-it/)

[Martha Gellhorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-gellhorn/)

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> [When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-cockburn/when-i-was-at-graduate-school-in-london-i-began-working-at-nbc-news/)

[Leslie Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-cockburn/)

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> [When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-nicholson/when-i-began-to-write-seriously-40-years-ago-now-my-chosen-form-was/)

[William Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-nicholson/)

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> [I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cary-fukunaga/i-began-writing-fictional-stories-and-little-screenplays-when-i-was/)

[Cary Fukunaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cary-fukunaga/)

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> [We began as strangers. We became friends. We became one with each other...We remain as one forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-began-as-strangers-we-became-friends-we-became-one-with-each-other/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/life-began-for-me-when-i-ceased-to-admire-and-began-to-remember/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hawking/it-now-appears-that-the-way-the-universe-began-can-indeed-be/)

[Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hawking/)

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> [The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-hastings/the-night-before-i-began-my-career-as-a-presidential-campaign/)

[Michael Hastings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-hastings/)

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> [Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-wu/brizo-has-been-my-single-biggest-sponsor-since-i-began-as-a-designer/)

[Jason Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-wu/)

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> [I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-began-my-work-in-the-70s-teaching-at-a-university-in-bangladesh-and/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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> [I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorraine-toussaint/i-meditate-i-ve-been-a-meditator-since-i-think-i-was-doing-it/)

[Lorraine Toussaint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorraine-toussaint/)

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> [“You are a universe,” he reverentially whispered, and then his game began. A game of pushing me to the brink, of building…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chloe-neill/you-are-a-universe-he-reverentially-whispered-and-then-his-game-began/)

[Chloe Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chloe-neill/)

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> [That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-baker/that-is-the-only-reason-salvation-is-necessary-is-to-get-us-back-to/)

[David Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-baker/)

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> [For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there weren't really a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-benson/for-me-i-was-able-to-make-that-statement-of-faith-early-on-when-my/)

[Jodi Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-benson/)

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> [The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/huston-smith/the-chinese-began-with-the-assumption-that-the-group-is-the/)

[Huston Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/huston-smith/)

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> [South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-young-ha/south-korea-first-allowed-women-into-the-military-in-1950-during-the/)

[Kim Young-ha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-young-ha/)

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> [In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-1961-the-united-states-began-chemical-warfare-in-vietnam-south/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-o-keeffe/i-decided-to-start-anew-to-strip-away-what-i-had-been-taught-to/)

[Georgia O'Keeffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-o-keeffe/)

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> [When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-klein/when-politicians-began-to-see-that-every-last-thing-that-they-did-in/)

[Joe Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-klein/)

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> [My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-allison/my-assumption-when-i-began-writing-was-that-you-were-never-going-to/)

[Dorothy Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-allison/)

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> [I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-lee/i-ve-always-been-much-more-of-a-guitar-picker-but-i-began-to-feel/)

[Alvin Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-lee/)

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> [Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-johnston/long-after-this-wonderful-event-in-the-earth-s-history-when-the-human/)

[Harry Johnston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-johnston/)

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> [Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That's what Martin Luther King…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louie-gohmert/whether-you-re-president-or-speaker-if-you-re-wrong-we-need-to-stand/)

[Louie Gohmert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louie-gohmert/)

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## Top authors on Began

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-dean-myers-94353.jpg) Walter Dean Myers 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/began/walter-dean-myers/)

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