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• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  R. D. Laing

  Pseudo, Patient, Madness

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Taste, Mathematics, Natural

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.119

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• The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Sacrifice, Self

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  War, Political, Chinese

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• I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Thinking, Europe, Forever

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• The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

  Horatius Bonar

  Forgiveness, Effort, Doe

  Horatius Bonar (1857). “The story of grace ...”, p.63

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• The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

  John C. Danforth

  World, Today, Way

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 180, September 19, 2006.

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• I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Thinking, Age

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• The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Communication, People, Atheism

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• I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Dream, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.218

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• It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Long, Steps

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

  Napoleon Hill

  Purpose, Starting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.84, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Feelings, Asking

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• Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

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• We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Trying, Culture

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• It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Stories, Layers, Starting

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Sex is a good starting point for everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Sex, Starting

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lying, Party, Dancing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

  Roberto Orci

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, People, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Memory should be the starting point of the present.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Memories, Starting, Should

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• Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

  Zhuangzi

  Birth, Starting, Ends

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• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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