Rapids Quotes

• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Brian Tracy

  Moving On, Action, Rapid Change

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fire, Two, Bored

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• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

  Jerry Saltz

  Hate, Events, Giants

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• The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

  Octavia Spencer

  Moving, Journey, Men

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• The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Growth, Frustrated

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

  Lech Walesa

  Block, Fighting, Phones

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• My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

  Jane Pauley

  Cycling, Spinning, Tides

  Jane Pauley (2004). “Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue”, p.4, Random House

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• 'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Years, Two

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• During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

  Martin Filler

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Environmental, Population

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• Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Team, Self, Play

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Country, Knowledge, Humanity

  Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

  Frances O'Grady

  Economic Models, Profound, Challenges

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• Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Government, Advancement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Rocks, Rafting

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• The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the market. But if you want to play in another game where you can get rapid increases of value and so on and so forth, this apparently has become the new parlour game, to invest in these companies and many their cases, the private equity that has been piling in onto of the venture capital is creating the unicorn, in other words the company with the $1 billion valuation.

  Kevin Kinsella

  Games, Play, Creating

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

  Martha Beck

  Average, Years, Brain

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• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

  John Boehner

  Cities, Soldier, Rockets

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• To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

  Edward de Bono

  Successful, Mad, Growth

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Dark

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• 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.

  Stockwell Day

  Trying, Typical, Stories

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