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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the… — Abraham Lincoln
I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise… — Patrick Swayze
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery… — John Boehner
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more! — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began. — John Dryden
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the… — Mary McCarthy
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. — Lucretius
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's… — Robert Burns
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine… — Ellen Goodman
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be.… — Shakti Gawain
There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications… — Carly Fiorina
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it… — Charlie Chaplin
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing… — H. L. Mencken
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore… — Bianca Jagger
As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a… — Dan Millman
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere… — Lewis Thomas
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained… — Robert Owen

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