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People dont slip. Time catches up with them

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"People don't slip. Time catches up with them"

- Nat King Cole

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This quote means that people do not randomly stop working or make blunders without reason. Rather, their failures are typically the result of an accumulation of elements gradually that eventually catch up with them.

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This quote is written / told by Nat King Cole between March 17, 1919 and February 15, 1965. He/she was a famous Musician from USA. The author also have 28 other quotes.

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