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“I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.”

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Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee is an American politician born on July 16, 1946. She served as a U.S. Representative, representing California's 9th congressional district. During her tenure, she actively participated in discussions and legislative work on various social and political issues. more

“Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.”

“The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.”

People Ifs Has Beens Made Calling Argument Congress Therapeutic Slippery Slopes Cloning Slippery Slope

Author:David Baltimore

“Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.”

Humans Heart May Hatred Affection Height Climbing Pauses Human Heart Slippery Slopes Slippery Slope

Author:Honore de Balzac

“This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.”

Evil Saws Generations Dangerous Be Good Rejects Slippery This Society Slopes Solomon Slippery Slope Previous Generations

Author:Ray Comfort

“Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.”

Science Individual Property Population Isolation Mechanism

Book:Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution

Source: Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution

“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”

Men Heart May Doe Forget Views Democracy Danger Solitude Clouds Every Man Isolation Thrown Ancestor Shut Up Descendants

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”

Two Attitude Principles Isolation Accord

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'”

Knows Needs Said I Can Jobs Teach Champion Broadway Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye Birdie

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.”

Country Today Existence Gone

Author:Stephen Ambrose

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