“Fortunate are those who take the first steps.”

— Paulo Coelho, book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83

“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) American birth control activist, educator and nurse

"Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32

“His nobility led him to take a few steps in the direction of fortune, and then to despise her.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

Il avait, par grandeur d'âme, fait quelques pas vers la fortune, et par grandeur d'âme il la méprisa.
Maxims and Considerations, #548

“Kant was the first to take the next decisive step”

Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) German mathematician

Introduction
Space—Time—Matter (1952)
Context: In the field of philosophy Kant was the first to take the next decisive step towards the point of view that not only the qualities revealed by the senses, but also space and spatial characteristics have no objective significance in the absolute sense; in other words, that space, too, is only a form of our perception.