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• I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

  Jimmy Carter

  Morning, Book, Tired

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• I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Ruins

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

  Nick Cave

  Mean, People, Creative

  "Old Nick". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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

  Richard Cecil

  Learning, Ignorant, Firsts

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• A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Challenges, Risk

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, Tails

  "My Interview with Dick Cheney". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Positive, Meaningful, Internet

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Years, Political

  Speech at Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

  Amy Chua

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Taken, Believe

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• I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Small Steps, Done

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• I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

  Confucius

  Art, Truth, Anger

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• If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Love, Men, People

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• The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Listening, Next Steps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

  Alice Cooper

  Eight, Feet, Minutes

  Interview with CBC, 2006.

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• Each instant of life is a step toward death.

  Pierre Corneille

  Life, Inspire, Instant

  "Tite et Bérénice". Book by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene I, 1670.

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• Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

  William Cowper

  Mistake, Men, Intuition

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1843). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author”, p.183

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• As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Thinking, Matter

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

  e. e. cummings

  Firsts, Creation, First Steps

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• So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

  Mitch Daniels

  Years, Income, Citizens

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• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  Larry David

  Couple, Hook, Firsts

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

  Dorothy Day

  Progress, Bricks, One Step At A Time

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• The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

  Chauncey Depew

  Motivation, Firsts, Moving On In Life

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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