You must start the work within 30 days of closing and complete it within six months.

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If you want to become a billionaire, you must start your own business, preferably in construction, and sell shares to the public.

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You must start new projects the minute you see the disruptive potential.

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If you want to enjoy the business and professional benefits that only authenticity can bestow, you must start by taking that proverbial long, hard look at the person staring back at you in the mirror.

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But we must start with you and me, today.

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Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it.

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Do you wait for your customers to disappear, as they surely must, or do you get a leg up and start firing now or at least stop hiring?

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You start blaming yourself, thinking I must be doing something wrong, there's something wrong with my child.

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And I've been thinking that the very first one, the one you push to start it all off, must have been when Vivi slipped off our bell tower and nearly died, fifty-nine years ago.

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We must start again, maybe it will be too late (in the league), you never know.

BBC: Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez hits back at his critics

And when you start taking phrases out of context and recasting them as quotations, you begin to feel (Shapiro must have undergone this sensation) a little vertiginous.

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