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2328 Began quotes by 1728 unique authors
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True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then…
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began…
— Susan Faludi
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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking…
— Derek Bok
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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art…
— Jakob Bohme
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When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
— Gerhard Richter
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As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
— Gerhard Richter
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And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
— Gerhard Richter
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I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.…
— Gerhard Richter
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I…
— Alexey Leonov
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My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds…
— Carl Honore
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A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell…
— Martin Buber
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Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious…
— Bertrand Russell
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty…
— Stevie Wonder
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New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
— Tim Cahill
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
— Lionel Blue
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In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
— Whittaker Chambers
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If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
— Kevin Nealon
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I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.
— John Larroquette
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously…
— Colin Hay
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Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of…
— Dora Russell
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
— Zane Grey
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