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#slippery

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.


John Dryden


#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.


Kerry Washington


#allowed #barack #certain #civil #civil rights

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.


Edwin Hubbel Chapin


#downright #fanatic #heart #nearer #slippery

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.


Thomas Frank


#above #always #back #bipartisanship #burning

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.


David Herbert Lawrence


#any #day #fish #give #had

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.


Dennis Ross


#europeans #many #sanctions #slippery #slippery slope

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.


Greg Maddux


#grass #hit #ok #once #slippery

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.


John McCarthy


#i #i see #instinct #see #slippery

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.


Vladimir Nabokov


#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.


Earl Nightingale


#bedside #before #best #during #elusive






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