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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make… — Ansel Adams
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on… — George F. Kennan
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. — Donald Barthelme
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,… — Edward Abbey
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I,… — Robert Adams
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children… — Lynn Johnston
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit. — Chinua Achebe
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Jung
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novelâ€”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. — Elizabeth Hardwick
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin
When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the… — Thucydides
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. — Robert Fitzgerald
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement… — Ronald Reagan
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Humanity, you never had it to begin with. — Charles Bukowski
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)… — Virginia Woolf
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with — Tony Kushner

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