Rapids Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• ...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

  Al Gore

  Years, Iowa, Weather

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• Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Freedom, Democracy, Progress

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• I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Neutrality, Pace

  "Defining Internet "freedom": Ars interviews Senator Al Franken". Interview with Nate Anderson, arstechnica.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

  Paul Engle

  Children, Church Bells, Iowa

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

  Clint Eastwood

  Information, Rate, Craving

  "The Leo Tapes". Interview with Mark Harris, www.gq.com. October 8, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Middle East, Experts

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• The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

  Al Gore

  Editors, Support, Troops

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• Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

  Lee Haney

  Exercise, America, Growth

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• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I’m completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There’s younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans [but they’re] musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  Taylor Hanson

  Guy, Musician, Fans

  "Taylor Hanson Isn’t Burning Down Any Hotel Rooms". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

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• 'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'

  Nellie Bly

  Badass, Men, Talking

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press

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• As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.

  Ally Carter

  Fall, Men, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Dream, Memories

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Suicide, Growth, Arabia

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