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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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• In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Evaluation, Sometimes

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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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• 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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• Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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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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• Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

  Georges Duhamel

  Trust, Beautiful, Memories

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

  Annie Dillard

  Years, Would Be, Wake Up

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

  Bryan Cranston

  Men, Shoes, Mind

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• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Witty

  "Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Conservative

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

  James Gandolfini

  Thinking, Ghouls, Vampire

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• Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

  Arthur Golden

  Jealousy, Passion, Hatred

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• I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

  Martin Gore

  Stars, Rocks, Two

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• I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

  Eartha Kitt

  May, Never Take Anything For Granted, Don't Take Anything For Granted

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• Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Funny, Hurt, Fall

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• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

  William James

  Fear, Past, History

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Finance, Beads

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Trying, Watches, World

  "Vanessa Hudgens, High School Sweetheart" by James Kaplan, parade.com. July 26, 2009.

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• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  E. W. Howe

  Fall, People, Icy

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• I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Real, Home

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• When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

  Dave Grohl

  Anchors, Old Friends, Storm

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Bamboo

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

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