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Denis Diderot : Scepticism is the first step towards truth. # Atheism

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Ben Stein : " There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals. " # Atheism

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John Pierpont Morgan : " The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. " # Atheism

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Alan Lakein : " You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal. " # Atheism

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Nelson Boswell : " The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. " # Atheism

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Muhammad Ali : " My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. Every step of the way I believe that God has been with me. And, more than ever, I know that he is with me now. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. l am still learning. " # Atheism

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Robert A Heinlein : " I said that "Patriotism" is a way of saying "Women and children first." And that no one can force a man to feel this way. Instead he must embrace it freely. I want to tell about one such man. He wore no uniform and no one knows his name, or where he came from; all we know is what he did. In my home town sixty years ago when I was a child, my mother and father used to take me and my brothers and sisters out to Swope Park on Sunday afternoons. It was a wonderful place for kids, with picnic grounds and lakes and a zoo. But a railroad line cut straight through it. One Sunday afternoon a young married couple were crossing these tracks. She apparently did not watch her step, for she managed to catch her foot in the frog of a switch to a siding and could not pull it free. Her husband stopped to help her. But try as they might they could not get her foot loose. While they were working at it, a tramp showed up, walking the ties. He joined the husband in trying to pull the young woman's foot loose. No luck — Out of sight around the curve a train whistled. Perhaps there would have been time to run and flag it down, perhaps not. In any case both men went right ahead trying to pull her free... and the train hit them. The wife was killed, the husband was mortally injured and died later, the tramp was killed — and testimony showed that neither man made the slightest effort to save himself. The husband's behavior was heroic... but what we expect of a husband toward his wife: his right, and his proud privilege, to die for his woman. But what of this nameless stranger? Up to the very last second he could have jumped clear. He did not. He was still trying to save this woman he had never seen before in his life, right up to the very instant the train killed him. And that's all we'll ever know about him. This is how a man dies. This is how a man... lives! " # Atheism

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Ira Kessel : " Education is the first step towards justice. " # Atheism

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Sathya Sai Baba : " Take one step towards Me; I shall take a hundred towards you. " # Atheism

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Scott Reed : " With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track " # Atheism

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Chinese Proverb : " One step at a time is good walking. " # Atheism

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Denis Diderot: " Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." # Passion

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Denis Diderot: " Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." # Passion

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Denis Diderot: " We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates." # Virtue

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Denis Diderot: " We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." # Truth # Love # Flattery

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Denis Diderot: " Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism." # Fanatics and Fanaticism

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Denis Diderot: " Attributions to Diderot of similar statements also occur in various forms, ie: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."" # Freedom # Kings # Critics and Criticism

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Denis Diderot: " Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to." # Dignity # Discretion # Truth

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Denis Diderot: " Reason is to the philosopher what grace is to the Christian. Grace causes the Christian to act, reason the philosopher. Other men are carried away by their passions, their actions not being preceded by reflection: these are the men who walk in darkness. On the other hand, the philosopher, even in his passions, acts only after reflection; he walks in the dark, but by a torch. The philosopher forms his principles from an infinity of particular observations. Most people adopt principles without thinking of the observations that have produced them, they believe the maxims exist, so to speak, by themselves. But the philosopher takes maxims from their source; he examines their origin; he knows their proper value, and he makes use of them only in so far as they suit him. Truth is not for the philosopher a mistress who corrupts his imagination and whom he believes to be found everywhere; he contents himself with being able to unravel it where he can perceive it. He does not confound it with probability; he takes for true what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is only probable. He does more, and here you have a great perfection of the philosopher: when he has no reason by which to judge, he knows how to live in suspension of judgment... The philosophical spirit is, then, a spirit of observation and exactness, which relates everything to true principles..." # Truth # Love # Action

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Denis Diderot: " I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God." # Marriage # Atheism # Mistakes

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Denis Diderot: " It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire." # Desire

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