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I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. -- Jessye Norman
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. -- Livy
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. -- Roberto Unger
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. -- Jack Schwartz
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. -- Tom Peters
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. -- Livy
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. -- Dan Rather
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. -- Arthur Stanley Eddington
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. -- Thomas Perez
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. -- Vito Fossella
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business. -- Natalie Massenet
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. -- Mike Birbiglia
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades. -- Martin Filler
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. -- Douglas Haig
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. -- Peter Senge
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko. -- Alan Moore
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset. -- Victoria Moran
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine. -- Robert Dallek
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. -- James Wolcott
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. -- John Perry Barlow
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased. -- Annie Besant
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. -- Nelson Mandela
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician. -- Dick Cheney
Even women are perfect at the outset. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. -- Stephen King
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. -- Peter Senge
Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset. -- Jared Brock
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. -- Publilius Syrus
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade. -- Richard Neal
From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. -- George Lucas
During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset. -- Irene Rosenfeld
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness). -- Sathya Sai Baba
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression. -- Milan Kundera
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. -- Rollo May
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. -- Lewis Thomas
I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people. -- Catherine Sanderson
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. -- Ovid
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. -- Jack Welch
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset. -- Evan Thomas
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. -- Arthur Stanley Eddington
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... -- David Bohm
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included. -- Heinrich Hertz
As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector. -- Andy Murray
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? -- Van Wyck Brooks
In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. -- Dallas Willard
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. -- Richard Branson
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality. -- Hugh Hefner
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. -- Mike Birbiglia
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. -- Karl Marx
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. -- Herbert Spencer
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. -- Tom Wolfe
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. -- Tracey Ullman
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do -- Tracey Ullman
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions. -- John Chadwick
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset -- Charles Dickens
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction -- William James
Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset. -- Curtis LeMay
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. -- Douglas Haig
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. -- Rene Cassin
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism. -- Donald Evans
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. -- George Crabbe
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards -- Rudyard Kipling
You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset. -- Clive Swift
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice. -- Carl Bernstein
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view. -- Lewis Baltz
Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book. -- Jeffery Deaver
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions. -- Andre Maurois
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. -- Albert Camus

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