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• Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Work Out, Childhood

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.191, Temple University Press

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• I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Dream, Athlete

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• In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Beach, Moving, Alaska

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• The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

  Xu Zhimo

  Religion, Starting Point

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• In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in that eating has become incredibly political. And just as the street has always dictated fashions on music and other things, it’s starting to happen that way in food.

  Jonathan Gold

  Fashion, Thinking, Rocks

  "Street Food Fight" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can.  Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life.  There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

  Victoria Moran

  Acceptance, Long, Wish

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• The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

  Brian Houston

  Wise, Good Friend, People

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.51, Hillsong Music Australia

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• We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second week, there were 60, the third week, 53, and by the fourth week, 45. I've often joked that we worked it out at the time- we had only four and a half weeks left until there were no more people. It was about that time that we had our first ever commitment to Christ. We outgrew the school hall after 12 months. The crowds were so big that we were using road-case as the platform, and what should have been the stage as a balcony so that we could fit more people in.

  Brian Houston

  School, Commitment, Sunday

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• When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

  Tim Krabbe

  Racing, Opponents, Licking

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

  Charles James

  Real, Heart, Men

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• My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Ache

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• The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.

  Eban Goodstein

  Air, Breaking Down, Arctic

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• I don't worry much but I'm starting to worry a little.

  Malik Rose

  Worry, Littles

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• I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Erica Bauermeister (2010). “The Monday Night Cooking School”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

  Felix Kramer

  Race, Government, Car

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• Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Hard Work, Passion

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• Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

  Marie Forleo

  Mean, Creative, Finishing

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2015

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• It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Moving, Next Move, Events

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• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

  John Avlon

  Country, Reality, Self

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• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book
  is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the
  fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this
  profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone
  wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these
  idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child,
  make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom-
  anywhere.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  Zedd

  Long, Starting Out, Young

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• When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Eye, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  Kimbra

  Home, America, Australia

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• Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

  John Collison

  Starting Out, Nimble, Size

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