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• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  Daniel Bell

  Self, Intellectual, World

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Identity, Starting, Foreign Places

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

  Chapman Cohen

  Data, Mind, Atheism

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• I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Thinking, Use, Paint

  Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

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• The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.

  Leon Trotsky

  Struggle, Order, Long

  Leon Trotsky, (2013). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

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• A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

  Anne Fortier

  Views, Different, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always use the Internet. It's a great marketing tool. It's a great starting point, allowing you to show your trailer and have people all over world be able to see it. It was much harder in the old days.

  Tom Six

  People, Marketing, Able

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Destiny, Two, Rely Upon

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• The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

  Adolf Hitler

  Political Will, Essentials, Action

  Adolf Hitler (1994). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

  William H. McRaven

  Strong, Needs, World

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Astronomy, Natural, Cradle

  Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”

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• Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

  Walter Schloss

  Book, Trying, Use

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• A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Way, Steps

  "The Brilliant Complications Of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Mean, Important Values, Issues

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• Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

  PJ Harvey

  Heart, Soul, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.

  David Sedaris

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Distance, Goal, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

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• TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

  Hal Hartley

  Girl, Character, Age

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• Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Achievement, Purpose

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• These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Fashion, Men

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

  Deborah

  Want, Changing Your Life, Starting

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• Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

  Leland Ryken

  Mean, Reality, Zest

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.24, Shaw Books

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