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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

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I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

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My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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