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• Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Home, Sea

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2016

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• When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Allies, Permission

  "Who Cares What Europeans Think?". Jewish World Review Column, jewishworldreview.com. March 04, 2002.

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• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, People, Literature

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• What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Years, People, Three

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hands, Names, Confusion

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1238, Macmillan

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• Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

  Martha Graham

  Love, Dance, Dancing

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Recovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

  Ezra Pound

  Night, Fields, Enough

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• I'm tired of this. It's like, just when I think our goal is within reach, it slips right through our fingers. It's happened time and again. Now, when we finally in our grasp, the truth slaps us in the face.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Tired, Thinking, Goal

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• For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

  Helen Keller

  Running, Fall, Struggle

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.62, Om Books International

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• I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

  Lloyd Jones

  Book, Kids, People

  Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Character, Forget Everything

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• Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Two, Horizon

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• I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Sleep, Night

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• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Horizon, Way, West

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• Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Cat, Novel

  "Questions for Murakami about Kafka on the Shore". www.harukimurakami.com.

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• Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

  Rick Perry

  New York, Texas, Pages

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• Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

  Rick Perry

  White, America, Giving

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Support, Important

  "Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe". Interview with Irene S. Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Writing, One Day, Permission

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• When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

  Pauly Shore

  Kids, Riding Your Bike, Care

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2010.

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