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«In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.»
«One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything»
«He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.»
«In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory»
«An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.»
«Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education»
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic»
«Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation»
«All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.»

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