Slope
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The situation in Libya, we are told, is too dangerous;Germany’s government doesn’t want to get caught on a slippery
slope
and eventually have to commit ground troops in a civil war.
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Before I talk about that, I've written down at the bottom there the
slope
of this curve, this straight line.
It says that, if it were linear, the steepest slope, then doubling the size you would require double the amount of energy.
The
slope
of that is less than linear.
And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery
slope
to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it.
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