#starting point

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

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Talent is only the starting point. ↗

— Irving Berlin

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Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me. ↗

— Justin Guarini

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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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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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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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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

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