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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to… — Chinua Achebe
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have… — Chinua Achebe
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… — Chinua Achebe
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on… — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. — Saint Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations… — Saint Augustine
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in… — Francis Bacon
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I… — Abigail Adams
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a… — James A. Baldwin
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long… — James A. Baldwin
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer… — Annie Besant
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William Throsby Bridges
As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the… — Sarah Brightman
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. — Phillips Brooks
My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations. — Dan Brown

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