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  • Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed. -- Bill Bonner
  • Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health. -- Tom Drury
  • Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it. -- Anthony Pratt
  • Everything's so accelerated now. -- Dan Stevens
  • The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated. -- Peter DeFazio
  • I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork. -- Anson Mount
  • I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. -- Warren De la Rue
  • Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. -- Tan Le
  • Driving was almost the only thing that felt natural in America. It was traditional. It was patriotic. When you accelerated, you could almost hear the crowd cheering you on. -- Hari Kunzru
  • Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated. -- Steve Case
  • Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. -- Galt Niederhoffer
  • No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Fuel-efficient my big engine is not. I drove 38 miles and burned through more than a quarter-tank of expensive premium gas. Every time I accelerated I could sense a Saudi Arabian somewhere was smiling. -- C.D. Payne
  • Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders"I really don't want to be arrested, okay?""Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke"I go too fast for police! -- Anne Fortier
  • His arms wrapped around my waist from behind and he kissed my neck again, closer to the wound this time. My pulse accelerated. I wanted him to bite me; I wanted to be his. -- Joann I. Martin Sowles
  • The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. -- Jack London
  • Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent. -- Swami Beyondananda
  • For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. -- Johannes Stark
  • I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation. -- Ernest Cline
  • This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. -- Margaret Chan
  • Did he know about the doping?' Children at sports schools were given hormones under the guise of vitamins. In a scandal that has come to light since the Wall fell, the pills accelerated growth and strength, but turned the little girls halfway into boys. -- Anna Funder
  • First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. -- Thomas E. Mann
  • I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly. -- Joseph Smith Jr.
  • Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise. -- Nassau William Senior
  • For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy. -- George MacDonald
  • I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith. -- Marion G. Romney
  • Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity. -- Paul Murray
  • The traffic system needs a complete rethink," mused Bryant as the unit's only allocated vehicle, a powder-blue Vauxhall with a thoroughly thrashed engine, accelerated through Belsize Park"Look at these road signs. Ministerial graffiti." "It's no use lecturing on the problem, Arthur. That's why your driving examiner failed you thirty-seven times." "What makes you such a great driver?' "I don't hit things. -- Christopher Fowler
  • the arts are life accelerated and concentrated. -- Edith Sitwell
  • The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. -- Menander
  • Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. -- Jet Li
  • I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace. -- Craig Finn
  • India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit. -- Manmohan Singh
  • Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. -- Terry Riley
  • I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants -- Steven Magee
  • Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. -- Nina Fedoroff
  • Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history. -- Mitt Romney
  • If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. -- Alvin Toffler
  • Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits. -- Anthony Pratt
  • As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption. -- Fadi Ghandour
  • The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. -- Ezra Pound
  • Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model. -- Jerry Yang
  • Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. -- Nicolas Roeg
  • The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership. -- Peter Drucker
  • If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development. -- Manmohan Singh
  • It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated. -- Kenneth I. Chenault
  • Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche. -- Sybil Leek
  • Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort. -- Halston Sage
  • Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police! -- Anne Fortier
  • But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. -- John Breaux
  • Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. -- George Will
  • We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. -- Bernard Ebbers
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