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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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• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Time, Truth, Taken

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• What I WILL say is this. What you interpret is not MY fault. It's yours. The first step in owning your life, your body and your destiny is to OWN the thoughts that come out of your own head. I didn't create them. You created them. So if you want to continue ‘hating’ this image, get used to hating many other things for the rest of your life.

  Maria Kang

  Hate, Destiny, Rest Of Your Life

  "Facebook And Fitness: Maria Kang Interview". Interview with Jeff O'Connell, www.bodybuilding.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Forever, Firsts

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• The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Moving, Journey

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.17, Penguin

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• The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Illumination, Solitude, Noble

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.142, New World Library

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• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

  Bell Hooks

  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Struggle, Book

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Kyoto Protocol, Long, Leader

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• The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

  George Hodges (theologian)

  Happiness, Firsts, Steps

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• Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Imagination, Goal, Creative

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 03, 2011

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• The first step to greatness is to be honest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Firsts, Steps

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.311

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• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  Zig Ziglar

  Doe, Firsts, Steps

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