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“Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.”

World May Long Done America Spirit Black Conditions Mankind Awake Tyrants Apathy Rapids Black History Stride Being Done

Author:James Forten

“Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!”

“I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.”

Persons Faithful Admiration Association Rapids Talkers

Author:Matthew Pearl

“By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.”

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Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.”

“Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Author:James Hansen

“We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.”

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Author:Allan Haines Loughead

“Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.”

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Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.”

Growth Rapids Emerging Places To Live Rapid Growth Gujarat

Author:Narendra Modi

“The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!”

Government Opinion Violence Bills Ancient Destroyed Reform Flood Uncertain Public Opinion Rapids Reformation

Author:Robert Peel

“Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.”

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Book:The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition

Source: The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition

“The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.”

Trying Hard Stories Nations Social Lines Gains Reputation Journalist Typical Social Change Rapids Trying Hard

Author:Stockwell Day

“Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.”

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Author:Lauren Slater

“For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.”

Values Individual Gone Virtue Obsession Parenthood Modesty Unnecessary Rapids Fidelity Refined Sweeping Preoccupation Abstinence Deterioration Before Marriage

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.”

Ifs Enough Able Sound Differences Beats Thirds Manipulation Manipulate Rapids Percussion

Author:Sunny Murray

“Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.”

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Author:Satoru Iwata

“There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.”

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Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.”

Young Night Growth Sky Affection Rapids Young Ladies Rapid Growth

Book:Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)

Source: Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)

“With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.”

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Author:David A. Freedman

“It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.”

Eye Certain Time Change Future Our Time Midst Paradox Rapids Drastic Devouring Rapid Change

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.”

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.”

Science Acceptance Claims Method Rapids Paradigm Discarded

Author:Bernard Lown

“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.”

“The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.”

Said Stills Country Today Science Technology Development Scientist Accounts Cents Rapids Unprecedented Science And Technology

Author:Robert Platt

“I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.”

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Author:Ernest Lawrence

“I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.”

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Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.”

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Author:Cordell Hull

“We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.”

Way Looks Problem Solve Critical New Ways Problem Solving Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Tim Brown

“Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.”

Inspirational Chance Sky Dare Rapids Slipping

Author:Garth Brooks

“For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

Source: Earth Abides

“I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.”

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Author:Alice Oswald

“Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.”

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Author:Ron Suskind

“Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.”

People Two Ends Use Purpose Fire Burning Shooting Range Owners Rapids Barrels Horny Vapor Shooting Range

Author:Stephen King

“My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.”

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Author:Philip K. Jason

“In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.”

Stills Action Courses Dangerous Standing Moving On Stillness Rapids Standing Still Rapid Change

Author:Brian Tracy

“Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;-the philosophers and the scientists.”

World Two Science Nations Results Party Labor Scientist Philosopher Separation Thinker Rapids

Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.”

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Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“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.”

Lasts Sound Levels Half Minutes Couple Originals Noise Rapids Decrease Audio Hissing

Author:Honor Harger

“The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.”

World Trying Left Photography Europe Photographer Photograph Disappear Enormous Rapids

Author:Josef Koudelka

“Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.”

Long Waiting Injustice Arise Unjust Rapids Mixtures Indolence

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”

Action Opportunity Practice Environment Skills Adequate Feedback Rapids Acquisition Correctness Thoughts And Actions Unequivocal

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.”

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Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.”

Soul God Speak Voice Prayer Reflection Silent Gods Will Noise Gentle Inward Rapids

Author:Francois Fenelon

“But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.”

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Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.”

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Book:Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch