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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I… — Henry David Thoreau
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. — Ken Venturi
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally… — Kerry Washington
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. — Ayelet Waldman
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with… — Andrew Weil
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school… — Jonathan Winters
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. — Rob Woodall
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. — Andrew Wyeth
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal… — Muhammad Yunus
For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics,… — Henry B. Eyring
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research… — Jonathan Haidt
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army… — Arjun Rampal
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers… — Howard Rheingold
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I… — Douglas Rushkoff
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy… — Willard Wigan
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach. — John Swartzwelder
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on… — Margaret Atwood
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut

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