C'est le commencement de la fin.
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It is the beginning of the end.
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Ascribed to Talleyrand in The Hundred Days (1815); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 66. Also attributed to General Augereau.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (a.k.a. Talleyrand)
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Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information. - Commencement address at University of Iowa.
W. Willard Wirtz
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.Guillaume de Machaut
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
Amelia Earhart
Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?
Mario Cuomo
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris
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