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• Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

  Joanna Baillie

  Thinking, Feet, Soul

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.88

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• Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Doe, May

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• Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Forever, Enlightenment

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Leather Jackets, Needs, Yeah

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• Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

  Robert Lowell

  Car, Grease, Giants

  "For the Union Dead" l. 65 (1964)

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• It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Self, People, Vision

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

  James A. Garfield

  Success, Believe, Personality

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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• I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.

  Bryan Mealer

  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

  Bryan Mealer (2008). “All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

  Jahmene Douglas

  Hurt, Kindness, Caring

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• I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Dark, Might

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.98, Vintage

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• Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

  Lawrence Bender

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.

  Warren Haynes

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Military, People, Evil

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Cutting, Soul

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores".

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• The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Cutting, Climbing

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 21: Sermons 1210-1270".

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• Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Stills

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 65

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• Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Data, People, Once Upon A Time

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• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Iron, Age, Golden

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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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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• 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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• 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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