Beginning Quotes

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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny — Robert A. Heinlein
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a… — Thomas Paine
The beginning is the promise of the end. — Henry Ward Beecher
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner… — John Quincy Adams
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late… — Louis Farrakhan
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished,… — George Bernard Shaw
Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I… — Nicholas Meyer
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no… — Unknown Author
The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth… — Dalai Lama
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly… — Robin Boyd
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if… — James Hansen
What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources. — John Prescott
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How… — Eugen Herrigel
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this… — Denis Johnson

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