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• Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

  Johnny Depp

  Mean, Romantic Love, Broken

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• I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

  Alva Myrdal

  Weapons, Firsts, Steps

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

  Kevin Bales

  Eye, Reality, World

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

  Anodea Judith

  Peace, Communication, Creativity

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• To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Exercise, Taoism, Firsts

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• Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Past, Giving, Today

  "Humanity Needs a Touch of Magical Interfaith Dialogue" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  "Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

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• First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Taken, Oil, Firsts

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• I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Makeup, Laughing, Firsts

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• Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

  Dan Poynter

  Taken, Challenges, New Horizons

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• Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inner Strength, Faces, Firsts

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• Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Needs, Firsts

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• The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Reading, Writing, Blogging

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• If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

  Mark Cuban

  Smart, Firsts, Return

  "Mark Cuban On How To Get Rich". www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doubt, Firsts, Steps

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• You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.

  Mother Angelica

  Grace, Needs, Boots

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• The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

  David Gelernter

  Funny, Creativity, Firsts

  David Gelernter (2010). “The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Science, Giving

  Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

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• The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Women, Hands, Democracy

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• Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Knowing, Mind

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• The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Police, Weapons

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Journey, Two

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• The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

  Giovanni Battista Brocchi

  Science, Shells, Earth

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• The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

  Joseph Delaney

  Ignorance, Firsts, Steps

  Joseph Delaney (2008). “The Spook's Curse”, p.54, Random House

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• I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Letting Go, Motherhood, Long

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.229, Da Capo Press

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