They Begin Quotes
122 quotes by 111 authors
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I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
— Henry David Thoreau
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All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks…
— Thomas Browne
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There are demons and there are evil people in the world And you post a picture like that, and some cultist gets a hold of…
— Pat Robertson
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Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
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When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these…
— Alan Hirsch
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If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they…
— Gautama Buddha
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It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they…
— Bob Buford
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes…
— Stephen Covey
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If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by…
— A.C. Grayling
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to…
— Michael Newdow
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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
— Norbert Wiener
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what…
— Eugene Delacroix
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The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or…
— Frederick Lenz
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Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling…
— Shakti Gawain
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
— Lucretius
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Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And…
— Joyce Cary
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Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning…
— Roger Zelazny
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