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• After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Sleep, Progress, Crowns

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306

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• Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.

  Bill Bonner

  Pain, Government, Organization

  "Careful Steps to Avoid a 'Dystopian Future'" by Bill Bonner, dailyreckoning.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

  Philip Guston

  Painting, Argument, Familiar

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, Elbows

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• When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Meditation, Upset

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• Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.

  will.i.am

  Ends

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• It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.

  Francois de la Noue

  Teacher, Writing, Men

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• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  Edouard Manet

  Paint, Humbug, Havens

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• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Pain, Bruises

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• If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Dream, Fall, Opportunity

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• I buried myself so much in the classics that I felt, "Well now, I've played all the big parts, whether badly or goodly, I don't give a damn, but at least I've played them all. Now, let's start again. Let's start the whole career again." And it makes you feel like you're beginning again, it really does.

  Christopher Plummer

  Giving, Like You

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

  Barack Obama

  Dust, America, Today

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Eye, Mind, Sound

  "The Trees They Grow So High". Notes in the album's CD booklet, 1988.

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• At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

  Susan Griffin

  Museums, Meditation, Painting

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

  Usain Bolt

  Home, Heart, Next Day

  Interview with Roberta Naas, www.hautetime.com. August 8, 2016.

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• In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

  Camille Paglia

  Law, Civilization, Tyrants

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

  George Harrison

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get up in the morning, and I'm in this world that I scratch out and begin again and write over - and then suddenly it's lunchtime, and I'm back.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Morning, Writing, Age

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Order, Europe

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, 15/1990, April 9, 1990.

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• Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

  Rakim

  Albums, Knows

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.

  Jonathan Morris

  Jesus, Honesty, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Ideas, What If, Doe

  Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press

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• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Ends, 1960s, Exile

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• I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it nota real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Upset, Triumph

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