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• Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.

  Albert A. Michelson

  Velocity, Would Be, Density

  "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.

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• One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

  Sam Altman

  Execution, Relentless, Advantage

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Stupid, Thinking, Car

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• We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

  Esther Earl

  Light, Miracle, World

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.

  Ned Overend

  Feelings, Technique, Machines

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• I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, Growth, Term

  "Billionaire Investor Yuri Milner Believes Xiaomi Will Become A $100 Billion Company" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Writing, Light

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• There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Fall, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.774, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Identity, Attention

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

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• Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Mass, Electric

  "Access", Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, (p. xxiii), 1984.

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• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Math, Race, Space

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, 2003.

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• Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,
  The earth-expression of immortal soul.
  
  Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
  To speed between thee and the source of power.
  
  Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I -
  Of this great trinity no part deny.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Expression, Soul

  "New Thought Pastels" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ("Affirm"), 1913.

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• It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quick Wit, Perfection, Advantage

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• Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Home, Sea

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 886

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

  David Attenborough

  Bird, World, Lows

  "The Life of Birds". Documentary, (1998 - ).

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• I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

  J. J. Abrams

  Reading, Parent, Creepy

  "J. J. Abrams: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Army, Surprise, Social

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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• You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

  Stephen Spender

  Lying, Moving, Eye

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Boys, Fixing

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

  Northrop Frye

  Fables, Tortoises, Tire

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.120, Dundurn

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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• When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.

  Ellen G. White

  Angel, Light, Heaven

  Ellen G. White (1963). “Medical Ministry”, p.131, Pacific Press Publishing

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• If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Hero, Lines, Fierce

  'Base Details' (1918)

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