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 personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Growth

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• 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.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Party, Science, Two

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• 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.

  Philip K. Jason

  War, Passion, Unique

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• 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.

  Tom Peters

  Sweet, Real, Important

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Two, People

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• 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.

  Ron Suskind

  Stress, Suffering, Stuff

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• 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.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Rivers

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• 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.

  George R. Stewart

  Running, War, Fate

  George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Opportunity

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• I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Tim Brown

  Looks, Way, Problem

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• In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Years, Everyday

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• 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.

  Honor Harger

  Couple, Half, Levels

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• The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Lying, Passion, Opposites

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.180

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• A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

  Frederick Sanger

  Reading, Science, Simple

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• Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
  When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yoga, Realization, Failing

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• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

  Novalis

  Doctors, Musical, Disease

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• Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

  Carl Sagan

  Causes, Serious, Evolution

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.

  Michael Morell

  Military, Two, Three

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Whales, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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