“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.” MayTwoWarUseHandsOrderCoursesForceNationsMaterialsEqualTrainingHundredResourcesTasksUnityObviousSpeedDefenseNeighborPursueOpponentsFortyEquipmentEmergenciesJuneHarnessNineteenDaggersSimultaneous Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.” IfsWantMeanTwoMomentsHelpingFormCertainRealizingDivineHundredSpeedWelcomeSymbolsTemplesFormulasWithin YouCeremonyQuarrelsBrutes Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.” YearsProblemGovernmentHundredSpeedMinistersMy TimeFifty Author:Idi Amin
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.” PeopleIfsJesusHoursLimitsHundredTwentiesSpeedMilesPilotsBumperStickerSpeed Limits Book:Strip Tease Source: Strip Tease
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.” PeopleYearsFirstsKindHas BeensMadeFactsBodyAgeJoyLinesCarDegreesHundredHistoricalSticksWorkersSpeedQuittingPaceAdaptationAssemblyPlugsRepetitiveAssembly LineHistorical Facts Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.” TwoStatesHoursSourceKissingAuthorityHundredFingersSpeedMilesFlightThrownDepartureArrivalsAmbiguousFartVelocity Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues