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In the midst of conflict, I was pushed to step forward. There were groups who wanted to change our leadership immediately. Some tried to force me to take over, but I rejected them.
Suharto /
Conflict
Midst
Rejected
Pushed
Step Forward
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin /
Men
Done
Humanity
Impossible
Single
Taken
More
Achieved
Always
Man
Never
Believed
Those
Possible
Forward
Striving
Step
Step Forward
Than
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How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?
Tony Tan /
Faces
Singapore
Contribute
Spectator
Step Forward
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
Stanley B. Prusiner / Researcher
Might
Steps
Surprising
Two
Discard
Favored
Hypotheses
Step Forward
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From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole /
Animal
Guinea
Infection
Point Of View
Useful
Guinea Pig
Pig
Practical
Preserving
Proved
Step Forward
Virus
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Whoever is in place to step forward and play that striker role has to be ready and be prepared to do the work because it is obviously a very tough job up top on your own. You have to put a shift in.
Oliver Burke /
Be Prepared
Shift
Step Forward
Tough Job
Whoever
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy / Entrepreneur
Appreciation
Courage
Thankful
Attitude
Bigger
Current Situation
Every Step
Gratitude
Happens
Situation
Thanks
Achieving
Every
Current
Develop
Forward
Give
Something
Step
Step Forward
Than
Toward
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Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Development
Political
Reality
Attempt
Forms
Emerge
Forces
More Or Less
Plane
Step Forward
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The swipe fee reform law that Congress enacted in 2010 was a huge step forward in bringing transparency, competition, and choice to a debit card system that had been rigged by Visa, MasterCard, and the banks.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Congress
Rigged
Transparency
Visa
Banks
Bringing
Card
Choice
Fee
Step
Step Forward
Swipe
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Within a match, there's so many things that happen that could ultimately determine the outcome: You reach too much with your right hand, you step forward with your left leg, you get your head out of position.
Jordan Burroughs / Olympic Athlete
Determine
Leg
Outcome
Right Hand
Step Forward
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
Parminder Nagra / Film Actress
British
Moving
Needs
Trying
Hoping
Intern
John
Just Kind
Step Forward
Tackle
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I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
Nia Long / Actress
Backwards
Feature
Step Forward
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Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.
Sellapan Ramanathan /
Defence
Friendly
Military
Exchanges
Minister
Relations
Step Forward
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Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Joyce Meyer / Author
Blessing
Giving
Greater
Joy
Mean
Ask
Blessings
Cooperate
Change God Time
Each
Each Time
Forward
Giant
Give
Means
Step
Step Forward
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Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
Caroline Kennedy / Author
Book
Fighting
Focused
Transforming
Voice
Event
Step Forward
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
Fatema Mernissi / Writer
Born
Closed Doors
Doors
Harem
Miles
Single
Child
Open
Closed
Forward
Walk
Instinctively
Outside
Step
Step Forward
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Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.
Michio Kaku / Physicist
Exaggerated
Ivory
Supper
Hyped
Step Forward
Tower
Ultimately
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Winning domestic tournaments like leagues, cups, and super cups adds to your standing in your country, but once you take a step forward in Europe and lift that European Cup, I think that prestige extends to the global stage.
Iker Casillas / Footballer
Prestige
Tournaments
Adds
Cup
Domestic
Leagues
Lift
Step Forward
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In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.
Lisa Madigan /
Allowing
Assembly
General Assembly
Illinois
Unions
Civil
Couples
Important Step
Lesbian
Passed
Recognize
Step Forward
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Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.
Timothy Olyphant / Actor
Hands
Honestly
Two
Years
Calculated
Material
Step Forward
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The fact that this radiation is so penetrating - nothing stops it - makes it so you can look for things that you have never seen before, and you can look at things you know in a way that's new. That is really the big step forward.
Rainer Weiss /
Radiation
Penetrating
Step Forward
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Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
Colin Quinn / Stand-Up Comedian
Behavior
Contradiction
Crazy
Humanity
Meant To Be
Primitive
Who We Are
Meant
Step Forward
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
Ibrahim Babangida /
History
Birth
Body
Book
Ideas
March
Testimony
Witness
Bearing
Coming
Forward
Launch
Present
National
New Book
Step
Step Forward
Takes
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Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.
Edward Johnson, Iii / Businessman
Leadership
Chairman
Fidelity
Johnson
President
Reflecting
Succession
Agreed
Board
Chief
Chief Executive
Executive
Forward
Further
Officer
Plan
Retain
Role
Serve
Step
Step Forward
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If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
Neal Boortz / Author
Government
Demand
Dirty
Dirty Work
Steps
Work Money Government
Earned
Step Forward
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You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson / Film Director
Empowerment
Positive Life Your
Affect
Specifically
Step Forward
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There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.
Sonita Alizadeh /
Change
Great
Despair
Injustice
Suffering
Begin
Lot
Living
Also
Deal
Forward
Great Deal
Instead
See
Speaking
Start
Step
Step Forward
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I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried to maintain that duality, because I think fandom is a way of being porous and curious, but it did feel like a step forward.
Carrie Brownstein / Musician
Curious
Duality
Switching
Maintain
Performer
Right Away
Step Forward
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The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.
Ron Williams /
Admirable
Obamacare
Providing
All Americans
Health Insurance
Important Step
Insurance
Reforms
Political Process
Problematic
Step Forward
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Having two teams with the same engine and being used to being really close to each other which is the case with Red Bull and Toro Rosso, I think we can do a big step forward if we work together and there's a good relationship between the teams.
Carlos Sainz Jr. /
Good Relationship
Red Bull
Work Good Relationship
Being Used
Bull
Engine
Step Forward
Work Together
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Implementing universal suffrage for the 2017 election is a big step forward along our road to democracy. This is not only a solemn commitment of the central authorities to Hong Kong but also the aspiration shared by seven million Hong Kong people.
Carrie Lam /
Aspiration
Election
Hong Kong
Implementing
Solemn
Suffrage
Universal Suffrage
Authorities
Shared
Step Forward
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I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father's leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Leadership
Luther
Memorial
Humbled
Course
Forward
Gratified
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Step
Step Forward
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For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.
Letitia Baldrige / Expert
Computer
Every Step
Forgotten
Humanity
Machines
Taken
Unraveling
Answering
Communications
Connect
Electronic
Forward
Step
Step Forward
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In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
Valentino Rossi / Motorcycle Racer
Sports
Honda
Improvement
Last Year
Winter
Yamaha
Years
Forward
Match
More Or Less
Same Level
Seemed
Step
Step Forward
Worse
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By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
Bradley A. Smith /
Donors
Groups
Naacp
Nra
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Sierra
Disclose
Planned
Required
Step Forward
Super
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I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.
Griz /
Needed
Pressured
Life Time Better
Life Time Step
Sure
Wanna
Forward
Step
Step Forward
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This change for creating a better world will not come from the government or an outside agency; it will have to be internal. We blame the politicians for everything, but if I give equal respect and rights to the women of my family, I have taken the first step forward.
Sangram Singh /
Agency
Blame
Better World
First Step
Internal
Step Forward
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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Frank Sinatra / Singer
Blood
Christ
Hundred
Organized
Organized Religion
Resent
Shed
Figure
Forward
Revered
Step
Step Forward
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Ascent
Broken
Carpet
Gaps
Mankind
Remains
Resolution
Rugged
Stationary
Steps
Round
Sliding
Smoothly
Step Forward
Unable
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The Freedom Caucus represents a pessimistic, divisive, and gerrymandered view of our nation. If America is to make progress, we must step forward from this form of politics - not just because we disagree with this or that policy but because it is fundamentally undemocratic and tyrannical.
Michael Bennet / United States Senator
Caucus
Disagree
Pessimistic
Divisive
Fundamentally
Step Forward
Tyrannical
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We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA's carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.
Donna Brazile / Author
Thankful
Health
Aim
Air Pollution
Barack
Carbon
Causes
Climate
Climate Change
Country
Epa
Pollution
President
President Barack Obama
Protect
Significant
Standards
Taken
Weather
Most
Extreme
Addressing
Obama
Barack Obama
Be Thankful
Ever
Forward
Step
Step Forward
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Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
Shania Twain / Singer-Songwriter
Creativity
Fun
Fun Stuff
Hey
Yesterday
Turning
Focusing
Helps
Production
Stamp
Step Forward
Turning Point
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Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won't last forever.
Alexandra Daddario / Actress
Auditions
Regret
Move Forward
Responses
Step Forward
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The Paris agreement represents a huge step forward. It would have been preferable, of course, to start the process many years earlier, and a lot of question marks remain on how nations will ratify it, adhere to it and report their carbon reductions. But this is a remarkable ray of hope for our planet.
Albert Ii, Prince Of Monaco /
Agreement
Carbon
Huge
Nations
Our Planet
Process
Adhere
Report
Course
Earlier
Forward
Marks
Planet
Preferable
Question
Ray
Reductions
Remain
Step
Step Forward
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I think any time people are recognised for standing up for what they believe in and the way that they do it is a step forward, because if we don't stand up for what we believe in and we let people get away with not educating them for things that they have said they're going to think that behaviour is acceptable.
Adam Goodes /
Acceptable
Behaviour
Stand
Time Believe People
Educating
Forward
Recognised
Stand Up
Step
Step Forward
Time People
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
Tad Williams / Author
Space
Changed
Cities
Farming
Human Society
Information
Preservation
Time And Space
Transmission
Across
Created
Cultural
Eventually
Followed
Forward
Increased
Major
Profoundly
Realise
Step
Step Forward
Vastly
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Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.
John F. Kelly /
Women
Adversity
Blink
Character
Danger
Eye
Men And Women
Night
Paid
Protected
Safe
Sleep
Men Women Character
Begin
Understand
Less
Nation
Deaths
Families
Women Men Character
Forward
Give
Ground
Price
Refusing
Sense
Service
Step
Step Forward
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When the time is right I have a laugh and a joke with my friends on a day off, but I have had to make sacrifices, and in that sense it's been a huge step forward, completely different to how it was before. I was 18 when the manager spoke to me. I realised I'm not like any other teenager. I can't be doing stuff any other 18 or 19-year-old was doing.
Raheem Sterling /
Realised
Time Me Day
Time Me Step
Forward
Laugh
Manager
Sacrifices
Spoke
Step
Step Forward
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