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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

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

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

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

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

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'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.