But when he went back to nursing school, he had to start as if he had never been involved in medicine at all.

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And if we don't start someplace, then we can never have any chance of getting away from this cycle of abuse.

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And what societies believe about how fluid they are matters almost as much as the reality: if America's poor ever start to believe they will never get rich, the place will be heading for trouble.

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Even if his synthetic pigments were never detected by scientific testing, the paint would start to peel in a few decades, betraying his ruse.

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Even if you have never done estate planning, this year is a good time to start.

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Howard has never lived in public housing, and even if she wanted to, she couldn't start now.

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Cross-border co-operation is never easy, but if rich-world governments want to protect their citizens, the place to start is in a foreign field.

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