"When a man meets his make, society begins." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
• When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
• Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
• I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
• Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
• Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
• The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
• A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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