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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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• I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

  James Lee Burke

  Rejection, One Day, Auctions

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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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• Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

  Amelia Barr

  Sleep, Events, Littles

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.129, Litres

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• Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

  Daphne Guinness

  Skins, Bananas, Life Is

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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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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.

  Travis Barker

  Morning, Eggs, Healthy

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