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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
[Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit
Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.]
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
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All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this
Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]
Big things have small beginnings.
Big things have small beginnings.