#first step

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

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I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. ↗

— Richard Cecil

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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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