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“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.”

Ifs Years Mean Hard Enough Moments Jobs Lasts Steps Do The Best Best Job Through The Years

Author:Oliver Stone

“Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.”

Firsts Lasts Moving Process Steps First Steps Marketers

Author:Seth Godin

“The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.”

Lasts Steps Acceptance Civilization Decline Homosexuality Gentiles

Author:Pat Robertson

“Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.”

Lasts Steps Eternity Each Day Day To Day Presence Of God

Author:Catherine McAuley

“Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August.”

Lasts Next Winning Steps Customers Stores Introducing Proven Alliances August Amazon Next Steps Forged New Baby

Author:Jeff Bezos

“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.”

Ifs Ends Whole Facts Lasts Science Steps Journey Hard Work Intellectual Research Crosses Workers Vain Accomplishment Accomplished Hopeless Industrious

Author:Max Planck

“The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.”

Want Firsts Lasts Process Steps Fit Findings Percent Structure Come Up Obsessed Melody Chords Get Real Arranging

Author:Mikal Cronin

“It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.”

Years Firsts Play Home Today Lasts Winning Difficult Steps Last Year Right Direction Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Gustavo Kuerten

“Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.”

Reason Light Lasts Faces Death Fall Steps Darkness Mines Thee Vain Surround Shade Veils

Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies

“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'”

Giving Looks Made Stills Bigs Today Lasts Past Steps Nice Land Lucky Hundred My Friends Baseball Balls Give Me Twenties Made It Twenty One Prestige Acres

Author:Mark Fidrych

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

Knows Two Earth Lasts Form Order Love Is Steps Practice Fairs Essence Absolutes Notion Sake Essence Of Beauty Symposium

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”

Ifs World Feels Years Has Beens Reason Reality Lasts Steps Couple Structure Insane Officials Real World Demonstration Disobedience Umpires Unreal Guidelines Unreal World

Author:Phil Ochs

“Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.”

People Knows Way Care Action Lasts Night Strong President Term Cities Steps Issues Willing Los Angeles Last Night

Author:Maxine Waters

“Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!”

Firsts Christian Lasts Sin Steps Progress Refuse Deny Guilty Repent

Author:John R. Rice

“When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.”

Years Long Has Beens Lasts Stuff Existence Steps Happened Minutes Long Time Tools Okay Guitar Boundaries Pushing Bad Things Mags

Author:Joe Satriani

“the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.”

Age Lasts Difficult Steps Old Age

Author:Madame de Stael

“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.”

Persons Has Beens Matter Eye Lasts Law Steps Fashion Taste Prepared Arbitrary

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.”

Kind Littles Lasts Next Bits Term Walks Steps Little Bit Next Steps

Author:Joe Nichols

“Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.”

Writing Looks Lasts Fall Steps Pieces Sky Paper Overcoming Something New Territory Blank Last Time New You

Author:William Zinsser

“I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell”

Giving Firsts Looks Has Beens Real Done Might Action Lasts Form Heaven Christ Religious Results Steps Judgment Wings Deeds Look Up First Steps Distribution Printed Judgment Day Deeds Done

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”

Doe Earth Lasts Death Causes Fear Water Steps Fire Air Mines Instruments Structure Fatigue Last Day

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.”

Giving Problem Lasts Science Common Steps Solutions Relation Responsible Mathematics Credit Mathematician Public Relations Gimmicks

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.”

“Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.”

Men Love Lasts Three Easy Love Is Steps Forever Kings Tough Weak Brave Instant Good Times Thrones Tough Times Bad Times Weak Man Good Times Bad Times

Author:Mike Oldfield

“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.”

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.”

Firsts May Lasts Fiction Steps Development Pages Glory Add Finals Artistic Evident Every Step

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be as anonymous as possible and part of it is just for me. It is fun to just come up with new and bizarre colors for each area of your body and things like that, but there are some parts of it that I just keep wanting to negate myself. I hate waking up in the morning and recognizing the woman in the bathroom mirror.”

People Trying I Can Body Lasts Hate Fun Steps Morning Week Color Areas I Hate Wake Up Mirrors Come Up Your Body Waking Bizarre Recognizing Bathroom Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Ani DiFranco

“It is a very naive view to think that the resources and conditions on earth would last forever. Our race has to take necessary steps to be able to develop the technology necessary to live on other planets and moons and to reach to farther corners of the galaxy.”

Thinking Able Earth Lasts Views Race Steps Technology Forever Conditions Planets Moon Resources Corners Galaxy Naive

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.”

Earth Lasts Steps Tree Humility Higher Roots Humble Spread Iron Every Step Descent Ribs

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ

“And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.”

Ifs May Lasts Hours Steps Land Integrity Immortality Fleeting Patience And Love

Book:From Poverty to Power

Source: From Poverty to Power

“Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.”

Men Firsts Ends Lasts Steps Guilt Descent Steep Precipice Perdition

Book:Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc

Source: Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.”

Firsts Two Whole Lasts Love Is Steps Journey Divine Surrender First Steps

Author:Rajneesh

“Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.”

Reason Lasts Steps Acknowledge

Author:Blaise Pascal

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”

Trying Looks Lasts Goal Numbers Steps Ought Negative Philosophical Regard Climbs Metaphysics Backwards Ladders

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.”

Ifs Lasts Steps Journey Thousand Miles Thousand Miles Single Step Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Author:Laozi

“We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.”

People Lasts Effort Steps Millions Conditions Commit Breasts Lasting Relative Construction Implants

Author:Nelson Mandela

“When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.”

Looks Running Lasts Turns Loses Hurt Ability Race Steps Originals Competition Imitation Chasing Stretching

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?”

Knows Men Doe Lasts Steps

Book:It's Good to Be Alive

Source: It's Good to Be Alive

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

Ifs Doe Two Reason Lasts Numbers Steps Limits Achievement Infinite Supreme Recognition Realising Excess

Author:Blaise Pascal

“According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.”

May Made Bigs Lasts Guy Next Heaven Black Steps Feet Minutes Style Drug Shots Prison Albums Rap Nine Ran Cents Last Time Dealer Drug Dealers Black Guys

Author:Chelsea Handler