#begins

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#eyesight #fallen #faulty #four #life

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Education, like neurosis, begins at home. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. ↗

— Danielle Steel

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins! ↗

— Tara Strong

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Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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