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• If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

  David Harvey

  Powerful, Tunes, Example

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

  Lee Labrada

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Progress

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• There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Peculiar, Up To You

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• The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

  Steve Blank

  Reality, Ideas, Healthy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

  Abby Wambach

  Thinking, Balls, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Animal, Reality

  Marcel Proust (1981). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, New York : Random House

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• Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Happiness, Vacation

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• At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need?

  Jeremy Gutsche

  Team, Organization, The End Of The Day

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• I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It's not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Real, Home

  Source: www.today.com

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• He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

  George Herbert

  Veins, Kind, Liquor

  "The Temple". Poems by George Herbert, The Church Porch, Stanza 6, 1633.

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Tails, Gone

  "Habitations of the Word: Essays". Book by William H. Gass, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

  Larry McVoy

  Water, Holes, Contracts

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• In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  Alan Kay

  Nerd, Our Society, Used

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• Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Political, Oligarchy

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• I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

  Joseph Farah

  Defense, World, Littles

  Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.65, WND Books

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• I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

  Charles Van Doren

  Teaching, Writing, Afterlife

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• Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Animal, Vegetables

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Book, Long

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• At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Realization, Unions, May

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• Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Voice, Wish, Tone

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• In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

  Garrett Hardin

  Zero, Fall, Abortion

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• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Breathing Space, Media

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• All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever played with, but I could never trust him. When the game was on the line and he was supposed to run an out route at 10 yards, he would run an in route at eight and slide to the outside and scream to me that he was open. But it was how he got open that really made me uncomfortable in trusting him.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Running, Eight

  "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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