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• If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Winning, Challenges, World

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• By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

  Thomas Starr King

  Book, Toil, Needs

  Thomas Starr King (1880). “Christianity and Humanity ...: Ed., with a Memoir”

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.

  Alexander Agassiz

  Taken, Ocean, Winter

  Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”

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• All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Autumn, Bridges

  Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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• Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

  Anne Campbell

  Selfishness, Slippery Slope, Firsts

  Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books

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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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• Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, Path, Adults

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Believe, Fighting, People

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• I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

  William H. Gass

  Otters, Style, Slides

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Slippery Slope

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

  Luke Evans

  Thinking, Slippery Slope, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Departure, Slippery Slope, Firsts

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• It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Down And, Slippery Slope

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

  Brian Cox

  Decision, Problem, Economics

  "Brian Cox: scientists giving false sense of debate on climate change" by Karl Mathiesen, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Slippery Slope, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.

  Cesar Aira

  Distance, Sky, Bird

  César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing

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• As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Mind, Age, Looks

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fall, Men, Two

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson and Candy Carson, December 16, 2011.

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• [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

  Madison Grant

  Rivers, Eels, Unqualified

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• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Basketball, Numbers, Slippery Slope

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• Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Sunshine, Army

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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