Potent Quotables: Beginning

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The First Amendment

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”
--Anthony M. Kennedy

Any New Beginning

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
--Craig Lounsbrough

Children of the Devil

“For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
--John 8:44

Beginnings

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

End to Beginning

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
--T.S. Elliot

A Scarce Man

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
--Mark Twain

Arrived

“Once we think we've arrived, it's the beginning of the end. We should always ask ourselves, what did we miss or do wrong?”
--David de Rothschild

Small Beginning

“Everything is small in the beginning then increases except trouble, which is great at its beginning, then decreases.”
--Arab Proverb

Careful Endings

“People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.”
--Lao Tzu

When to Begin

“Don't wait until conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes conditions perfect.”
--Alan Cohen

Great Deeds

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
--Albert Camus

Beginning Without End

“Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won’t be an end.”
--Anthony Robbins

Wisdom Conquers Fear

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
--Bertrand Russell

Love Oneself

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
--Oscar Wilde

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The Beginning of Love

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
--Thomas Merton