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“Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.”

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Author:Lee H. Hamilton

“The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”

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Author:B. Traven

“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”

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Book:Becoming a Writer

Source: Becoming a Writer

“If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.”

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Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.”

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Author:S. N. Goenka

“The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.”

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Book:The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

Source: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

“The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.”

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Author:Maria Kodama

“Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.”

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Author:Richard Stallman

“The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.”

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Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.”

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Author:Thaksin Shinawatra

“[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.”

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Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.”

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Book:Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)

Source: Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)

“If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.”

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Author:Alphonse Karr

“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”

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Book:John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

Source: John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

“I’ve discovered that if I don’t take the first step, God generally won’t reveal the next step.”

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Author:Mark Batterson

“The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.”

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Author:Lynn Tilton

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

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Author:Chauncey Depew

“The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].”

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Author:Tom Duff

“The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Successful people are always thinking about what they can do to move to the next level. Initiative is the drive to do it - to take the first step, and then the next step. The great thing about initiative - is that it's free and available to everyone.”

Source: The 10 Laws of Enduring Success

“The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.”

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Author:Gordon Bethune

“Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.”

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Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.”

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Book:Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

Source: Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

“Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.”

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Book:The Normal Christian Life

Source: The Normal Christian Life

“Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?”

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Author:John Vianney

“On this path, it is only the first step that counts.”

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Author:John Vianney

“The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.”

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Author:Samuel Richardson

“Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.”

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Author:David Jeremiah

“Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.”

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Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.”

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Author:Denis Diderot

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

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Author:Confucius

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

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

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Author:Alva Myrdal

“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.”

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Book:Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

Source: Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“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.”

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Author:Fethullah Gulen

“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.”

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Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“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.”

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Author:Kevyn Aucoin

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

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Author:Dan Poynter

“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.”

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Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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Author:Iyanla Vanzant

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

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Author:Jeff Jarvis

“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.”

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Author:Mark Cuban