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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
Mandela's political evolution was gradual.
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
Getting healthy, getting into shape is a gradual process.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.
Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.
The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.
Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.
I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.
People get inspired by Salman Khan, Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. But, body sculpting is a gradual progression.
The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided gradual healing and strength.
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.
Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.
