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• On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

  Thomas French

  Extinction, Nudge, Oblivion

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• In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Years, Sight

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• Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.

  David Whyte

  Grief, Water, Darkness

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• A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Realizing, Circumstances, Presenting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

  Louis XIV

  Past, Men, Years

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• At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Receiving, Needs

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• When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

  John Smith

  People, Together, Doe

  John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.222, Applewood Books

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• People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Believe, People, Slipping

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.213, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."

  Neil Peart

  Mom, Dad, Forever

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Country, Horse

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• Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

  Tim Seibles

  White, Vines, Green

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• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Lying, Law

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Love, Pain, Compassion

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.261, Da Capo Press

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• In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Play, People

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• All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

  Laura Nyro

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

  Wynonna Judd

  Hands, I've Learned, Permission

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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

  Robin McKinley

  Dark, Roots, Sight

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• Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, Hero, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

  Edward Abbey

  Reality, Trying, Quotation Marks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Heaven, Wish

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

  Dr. Dre

  Hip Hop, Cuz, Let Me

  "Song: "Nuthin’ But a „G“ Thang" ("The Chronic")". November 19, 1992.

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• My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Moving, Humble

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• Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

  Carl Ally

  Spiritual, Want, Get Up

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• The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

  Norman Cousins

  Recovery, Doctors, Enabling

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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