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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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• 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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• I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

  John Howard

  People, Mind, Important

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  Gary Becker

  Yield, Interesting, Analysis

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, History, Political

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

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• When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Journey, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.223, Modern Library

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• How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).

  Ally Carter

  Sweet, Reading, Boys

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

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• The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Taken, Mind

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Journey, Profound

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Goal, Simplicity, Outcomes

  "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.

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• Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

  Justin Guarini

  Want, Jazz, Starting

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  School, People, Foundation

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• When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been brought about by the knowledge of God through the practice of the virtues has reached maturity, it starts to grow anew. For the end of one stage constitutes the starting point of the next.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Maturity, Order

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• I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Book, Use, Littles

  "An Interview with Gossip Girl's Author". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 26, 2010.

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• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Historical, Important, Tools

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
  Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

  Hank Nuwer

  Teacher, Drinking, Acceptance

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

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• If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Blessed, Starting

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• Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Yesterday, Goal, Starting

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• I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  New York, Hate, Past

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• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Starting, Figures

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• Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

  Irving Berlin

  Talent, Starting

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• Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Attention

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