And it wasn't accepted, and that's really the beginning, middle, and end of it.

NPR: Legal Battle over Floor from 'Saturday Night Fever'

But it doesn't -- as we said from the beginning, it does not begin and end with congressional action.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Most important, they can't read the 3 billion letters--A, C, T and G, for the nucleotides adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine--in the human genome from beginning to end, the way one reads a book.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This week, as he roars out of Texas with so much money and momentum behind him that people can't agree on whether this is the campaign's beginning or its end, the best way to grasp what has happened may be to imagine that both stories are true.

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