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The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. — Sharon Olds
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began… — Nikola Tesla
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni
Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord… — Barack Obama
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered… — Abraham Lincoln
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big… — Walter Weyl
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,… — Barry B. Longyear
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began… — Henry David Thoreau
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain… — Henry David Thoreau
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic… — Naomi Wolf
I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began… — Shigeru Miyamoto
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others.… — Corrie Ten Boom
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. — Patricia Reilly Giff
I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this… — Paul Tudor Jones
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink. — Jane Hirshfield
Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view. — Cesar Millan
Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras… — Candace Bushnell

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