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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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The first step in good reporting is good snooping. ↗

— Matt Drudge

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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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