#starting point

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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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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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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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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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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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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