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• Haven't you heard, though,
  About the ships where war has found them out
  At sea, about the towns where war has come
  Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
  Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
  And children in the ships and in the towns?

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Children, War

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Effort, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.58, Random House

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• One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

  Sophocles

  Thinking, Speech, Speak

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• I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

  Isaac Asimov

  Reading, Speed Reading, Reader

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

  Georges Hebert

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mother, Blue, Earth

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• The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Next, Causes

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• Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

  Mary Pipher

  Country, Children, Home

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.44, Penguin

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• For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Sound, Want

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.18, Random House

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• Too slow, the wagons of years,
  The oxen of days--too glum.
  Our god is the god of speed,
  Our heart--our battle-drum.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Heart, Oxen, Years

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1972). “Poems”

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• Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Slow Down, Bits, Eagerness

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• We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Moving, Sea

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.123, Courier Dover Publications

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• I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

  Bonnie Blair

  Falling In Love, Ice, Wind

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• Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

  Ted Cruz

  Technology, Government, Obamacare

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2014

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• There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

  Bill Burton

  World, Digital, Lightning

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• From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

  Adele Faber

  Clever, Sibling, Struggle

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• We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

  Tian Dayton

  Moving, Trying, Robots

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• They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

  Al Davis

  Lying, Never Lie, Absolutes

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

  Brian Boitano

  Art, Laughter, Moving

  Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Peggy Fleming (1997). “Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Air, Water

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skating, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Airplane, Flying, Outcomes

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• Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bigs, Slabs, Dialogue

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• I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Thinking, Issues, Grants

  "On Writing Speedily", first published in The New York Times Book Review (1986); republished in "Miles Gone By : A Literary Autobiography" by William F. Buckley Jr., (p. 405), 2004.

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