The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
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JOHN MCCARTHY Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
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NIGEL WARBURTON More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
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RAUL ALVAREZ The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
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GORDON ATKINSON The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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LEON KASS All's well that carries on well
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GEVER TULLEY Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.
GEVER TULLEY An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
DON MARQUIS An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDE An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.
ALFRED ALCORN We should not go down the slippery slope of what other countries might do to terrorize detainees.
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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
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ADAM SCOTT My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but ...
RICHARD DAWKINS We've been headed down a slippery slope. It's caught up to this point.
RICH HERMAN An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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MARK WAID once you sell more trust units then we're on the slippery slope downward.
AL ROSEN Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
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MARIO BATALI Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
BETTE DAVIS All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.
PATRICK MCGURN Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger b...
PATTY MURRAY One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working t...
IDA TARBELL Speeding is especially dangerous on these slippery roads.
JIMMY MABOKO Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
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STU JACKSON I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a...
MIRANDA JULY Mostly we have cars out there packing the track but, with all rain we've had, the track has gotten r...
DAVE MUNOZ Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Do all things with love.
OG MANDINO I can't be all things to everyone.
DELTA GOODREM In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
ROBERT HERRICK We recognise that all vehicles can be dangerous when in an accident with a pedestrian.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.
STEPHEN RICHARDS I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to th...
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NORA SAKAVIC We need to step back from the day-to-day rhetoric of the negotiations. We're on a slippery slope if ...
DENNIS RICHARDSON The detection of a person as safe or dangerous triggers neurobiologically determined pro-social or d...
STEPHEN W. PORGES We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, whic...
GIORDANO BRUNO The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what peop...
DAVID BALTIMORE Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA What are you doing?” I asked. “Are we getting all Fifty Shades up in here?”
He shushed m...
SOPHIA BLEU In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope o...
CARRE OTIS Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
AESCHYLUS To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER I think we're entering a slippery slope. Maybe this Legislature has good intent, but what's to say t...
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OWEN SCHMITT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure...
JENA MALONE Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for mu...
RON WYDEN We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
GARY F EVANS... Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...
HONORé DE BALZAC If you're slipping down that slippery slope, polygamous marriages should come before gay marriage be...
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SEN RICHARD SEARS I believe that all things are possible under God.
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