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• We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

  Ovid

  Time, Feet, Our Time

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• Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Maturity, Pineapples, Lows

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• Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

  David Platt

  Pace, Wells

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• Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Progress

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government

  John Muir

  Kings, Fate, Science

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.302, e-artnow

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• Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

  Werner Herzog

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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• The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

  Howard Hughes

  Brain, Evolution, Humans

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• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  Frederick Marryat

  Ocean, Rivers, Water

  Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.1

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• Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

  Al Bernstein

  Years, Parent, Age

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• Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.

  Sidney Lanier

  Running, Pain, Fall

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

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• You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Attitude, Book, Blow

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• We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Science, Years

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• One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

  Naomi Klein

  Food, Fall, Loss

  "Climate change is the fight of our lives - yet we can hardly bear to look at it" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

  Dalai Lama

  Discipline, Nuclear, Impatience

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• Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

  D. V. Ager

  Science, Past, Records

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• All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

  Albert Pike

  Degrees, Devastation, Violent

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• [Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Fall, Water

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• Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fundamentals, Literature, Significant

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Growth, Certain

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• Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
  [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

  Tacitus

  Change, Growth, Body

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• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

  George Eliot

  Inspiration, Names, Analysis

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.98

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• The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Environmental, Generations

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• We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Army, Oil, Water

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.306, New Canadian Library

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• It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.

  Paul Foster Case

  Teaching, Roots, Light

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• Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

  William C. Oates

  War, History, Unexpected

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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