"A life without purpose is a languid, drifting……" — Thomas a Kempis

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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came… — Hannah Arendt
• A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole… — Aristotle
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• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place… — Karen Armstrong
• When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
• The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
• Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
• India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never… — Sri Aurobindo

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