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«The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you»
«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.»
«What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States . . .»
Author: William Blum
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grounds, hypocrisy, immediate, justification, political leader, retaliation, slip, social action, social injustice, terrorism, terrorists
«Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.»
«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.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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belief system, differently, dissolve, dissolving, expand, insane, minds, perceive, result, seems, slip, slipping, slip away, slip by, slip in, slip on, slip up, system, The Fear, willing, working
«Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.»
«Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.»
«The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.»
«Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.»
«What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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bright side, compose, frowns, imaginations, slip, tormenting, unheeded
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