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• Begin well, end badly; begin badly, end worse.
• Thousands of journeys have a start but no end.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stop
• Pleasure is the start and end of living happily. -- Epicuru
• Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hanse
• When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
• lithium lick n. [NeXT] Steve Jobs. Employees who have gotten too much attention from their esteemed founder are said to have `lithium lick' when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervor and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation -- for example
  It just works, right out of the box!...
• To write a good love-letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and end without knowing what you have written.
  -- Rousseau (And then when she never speaks to you again, you'll wonder why you listened to this quote....
• Other things may change, but we start and end with family. -- Anthony Brand