#first step

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. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ↗

— Ben Stein

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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Iraqi elections were an important first step. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

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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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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ↗

— James Huneker

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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it. ↗

— Halle Berry

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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. ↗

— Rita Dove

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