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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. — Douglas Rushkoff
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out… — George MacDonald
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. — Carter G. Woodson
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin… — Judith Martin
I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen… — Jim Morrison
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical… — John Cage
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnâ€™t flying a thousand miles an hour, or… — Richard Bach
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. — Winston Churchill
Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first… — Ken Kesey
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more… — Cornelia Funke
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. — John Updike
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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