#starting point

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

— W. Clement Stone

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