#starting point

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point. ↗

— Estelle Morris

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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. ↗

— John Hull

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Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again. ↗

— Warren Mitchell

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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. ↗

— Gary Becker

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