了解穷人的真实生活是设计有效政策帮助他们第一步。
Understanding the real lives of the poor is the first step toward designing effective policies to help them.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
思想的清晰性是通往哲学真理的第一步。
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.