"Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it."
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"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."
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"The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother."
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"Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
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"Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich."
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"Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward."
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"To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
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"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
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"I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in."
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"If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes."
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"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."
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"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"
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"It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death."
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"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
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"Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take."
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"We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take."
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"We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
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"You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it."
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"Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water."
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"When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely."
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