Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
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My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.
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"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948) p. 94.Guillaume de Machaut
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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
C'est le commencement de la fin.
Charles Maurice de (a.k.a. Talleyrand) Talleyrand-Perigord
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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