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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.

The universe is limitless and so are you. There is a limitless supply of good that the universe wants to show you. Step out of the way and let it be!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.

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.

The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

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

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.