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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

"Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

I approach every role from scratch.

"Paul Dano on Dream Girl Zoe Kazan Coming to Life in Ruby Sparks". Interview with Karen Kemmerle, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.

Scratch my back with a hack saw!

"Cow-kicked: FSN fires Lange as Penguins' TV voice". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2006.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

"He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

"Maria Sharapova: My love for tennis stopped me from walking away". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2010.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid (2017). “The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

"Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.166, e-artnow

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”