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Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.”

Thinking World Trying May Remember Passion Vision Steps Projects Shoes Terror Perceive Unseen Rotten Crossings Numb Whim Shrinking Gorges Circumspection

Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004

“Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.”

Knows Firsts Ends Reason Steps Sight Independent Distance First Steps Traveled Escalators

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.”

Ifs Needs Three Forget Steps Outcomes Japan

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.”

Men Mind Firsts Care Belief Steps Ideals Chains Internals Acceptable First Steps True Freedom

Author:John Dewey

“To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.”

Men Light Steps Graves Variables Awfulness

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.”

Stills Hands Steps Cold Weak Breaths Bills Winter Teeth Dull Chill Beard Scarce

Book:The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

Source: The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.”

Men World Form Steps Novel Struggle Records Minutes Remains Longing Beloved Complexity Mistaken Decency

Author:John Cheever

“Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.”

Ends Waiting Goal Steps Divine Demand Miracle Curious Immortal Impatient Miracles Of God

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.”

Men Book Steps Honor Stones Dust Temples Climbing Stairs Stairways

Author:Joaquin Miller

“I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.”

Ifs Hard Enough Goal Steps Achieve Reasonable Manageable

Author:Michael Jordan

“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.”

“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”

Wells May Water Freedom Steps Land Proud Mountain England Firm Magnificent Scotland Couches Switzerland Dams Fetters Nile

Author:Lydia M. Child

“From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!”

Thinking Action Acting Steps Irrevocable Single Step

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.”

Life Dream Life Is Order Steps Fate Plans Fine Bears Things To Do Plot Schemes Sailing Our Dreams Voyages Fine Day

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.”

Hands Steps Keys Eternity Lays Dues Golden Immortality Aspire Palaces

Author:John Milton

“Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.”

Steps Hell

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...

“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!”

Heart Use Social Steps Class Economy Middle Century Ideology Marxism Critique Bourgeois Marxist Latent

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.”

Believe Wells Law Differences Steps Policy Changed Judging Function Public Policy Judiciary Times Have Changed

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”

Men Firsts Humans Important Women Goal Steps Birth Equal First Steps Emancipation Birth Control

Author:Margaret Sanger

“Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.”

Men Mind Religion Loses Freedom Steps Estates Unlimited Posture Good Posture

Book:Atlas Shrugged