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• Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Fall, Achievement, Life Is

  Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran, Lonergan Research Institute (1993). “Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection”, p.220, University of Toronto Press

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• It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

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• Some guys just slip under the radar.

  Victor Cruz

  Guy, Radar

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• There is great power in loving, consistent, fervent family prayer. Don't deny your families this blessing. Don't allow the strength that comes from family prayer to slip away from you and your loved ones through neglect.

  John H. Groberg

  Prayer, Blessing, Loved Ones

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Somewhere Else, Looks, Moments

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.75, Bottom of the Hill

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• I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

  Kristin Hersh

  Next, Muse, Keel

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• It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Dying, Insane, Criminals

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

  David Lange

  Knives, Scar

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 96), 2000.

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• Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

  St. Vincent

  Sleep, Your Side, Poison

  Song: Paris Is Burning

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• If I'm wearing jeans all day at work, it's [hard] to slip into a dress and make yourself feel like you were born in it. That sort of thing can really be the difference between a good look and a great look. You can have a great dress, but when you put it on and you feel like it's embodying who you are that day, that's not just fashion, that's style!

  Debby Ryan

  Fashion, Jeans, Differences

  "Debby Ryan: How Disney Channel Actress Preps Red Carpet Outfits". www.usmagazine.com. March 06, 2014.

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• In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Death, Memories, Fall

  Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

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• On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

  Isaac McLellan

  Change, Looks, Decay

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22

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• The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

  Ruth Asawa

  Garden, Ideas, Common

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• Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

  Richard Hovey

  War, Maine, Ships

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

  Lori Foster

  Kissing

  Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.25, Harlequin

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• I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, People, African American

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.

  Jeff Ross

  School, Comedian, Too Much

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Cutting, Perspective, Want

  "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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• Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually, a priest who stabs his own god in the chest. Always trying to slip his past, but never succeeding. Dark dude. Brooding dude. Born killer. But honorable, still.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Character, Dark, Past

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

  Ann Voskamp

  Holy Ground, Encounters, Sides

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of sunlight... and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief! Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter. Quick, you must PREPARE for her docking... you MUST make space in your life for her gifts... otherwise, just as quickly, she'll quietly slip back out to sea.

  Mike Dooley

  Beautiful, Morning, Laughter

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• Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

  Jason Fried

  Cracks, Bigger

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• Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

  Michael Scanlon

  Past, Want, Vote

  "Abramoff, Reed, and the 'Wackos'", www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.

  Ricky Gervais

  Looks, Firsts, Embarrassed

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day", www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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