To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
– Marshall McLuhan
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- A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It takes a little slip to slip. Inappropriate words are inappropriate! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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