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• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams
• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope -… — Halle Berry
• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. — Ambrose Bierce
• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the… — Brendan Shanahan
• The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall… — Clarence Day
• People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in… — Kerry Washington
• Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by… — Alan K. Simpson
• I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter
• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
• Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam
• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with… — Norman Mailer

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