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This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.
There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
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.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.