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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

May, Sea, Normal

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Chinua Achebe

Food, Yourself, Someone

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Epictetus

Good, Desire, Believing

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember, Once, Pick

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James A. Baldwin

Yourself, Long, Enough

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

Courage, Real, Through

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden

Both, Almost, Run

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll

End, Beginning, Stop

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

End, Shall, Content

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert

Freedom, Understand, Speak

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Dogs, Moves, Bark

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda

Light, Off, Once

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

Live, Die, Afraid

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

Politics, Serious, Thousands

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse

Mind, Line, Beyond

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

Time, America, Wonderful

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing

Change, History, Live

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

Great, True, May

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

Politics, Time, Else

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

Wise, Bold, Venture

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Age, Great, Human

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett

Age, Power, Wisdom

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Able, Violence, Beginning

To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen

Failure, Strong, Purpose

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
Richard M. Daley

Family, Best, Done

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