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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.

  William James

  Science, Men, Offering

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• The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Discovery, Add

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Air, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.171, Library of Alexandria

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• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Simple, Diversity

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• ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Winning, Class

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.82, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn`t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don`t go on copying others signatures.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Heart, Individuality

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• The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sexy, Inspiration, Self

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.

  Wayne Dyer

  Gratitude, Giving, Scarcity

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• The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.

  Nancy Brinker

  Appreciation, Grateful, Generosity

  "Promise Me – How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer". Book by Nancy Brinker, 2010.

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• "I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Thinking, Firsts

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

  Victoria Alexander

  Suicide, Grief, Firsts

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• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Trust, Taken, Escaping

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• The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Knowledge, Science, Taxonomy

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

  Lotte Hass

  Home, Men, Greed

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• No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Principles

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.39, Verso

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• What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version of ourselves. To "cultivate one's moral character" is the first step towards taking responsibility for the nation, and for society. Confucius and his disciples struggled hard to be "the best version" of themselves, but their aim in this was to better carry out their responsibilities to the society in which they lived.

  Yu Dan

  Integrity, Character, Responsibility

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• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Firsts, Steps

  "The Road to Begin Your Life". Book by Randall Dickau, p.58, September 27, 2007.

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• C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.

  Sharon Carstairs

  Gun, Engineering, Littles

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• The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

  Denis Waitley

  Firsts, Steps, Favourite

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• Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

  Wes Fesler

  Fall, Mean, Commitment

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• Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.

  Nikita Koloff

  Dream, Inspiration, Destiny

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• The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Beauty, Letting Go

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• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Story Writers, Doe

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