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  • Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. -- William C. Oates
  • Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. -- Milton Friedman
  • Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
  • I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type.~ Grace Madison, PhD. -- N.L.B. Horton
  • 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
  • I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula. -- Brandon Lee
  • Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. -- David Suzuki
  • When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities. -- Peter Drucker
  • Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies. -- Richard Owen
  • We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. -- Charlie Munger
  • When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy. -- Billy Graham
  • The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. -- Voltaire
  • In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. -- J. Paul Getty
  • Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -- George Washington
  • A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. -- Jane Austen
  • 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
  • No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. -- Ernest Lawrence
  • Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. -- James Hansen
  • For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. -- Margaret Chan
  • 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
  • To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact. -- David Blunkett
  • The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! -- Robert Peel
  • If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. -- James Monroe
  • 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
  • Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. -- Arne Glimcher
  • We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it. -- Prince Charles
  • Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. -- Akio Toyoda
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  • It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. -- John Coleman
  • The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. -- Mercy Otis Warren
  • Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States. -- Xi Jinping
  • For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. -- Norman Borlaug
  • I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology. -- Neil Postman
  • 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
  • ...rapid motion through space elates one. -- James Joyce
  • Female friendships are of rapid growth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Music is a means of rapid transportation. -- John Cage
  • Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. -- Alice B. Toklas
  • The FDA has formed a rapid response team. -- Andrew von Eschenbach
  • There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss. -- Mireille Guiliano
  • The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. -- Howard Hughes
  • All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. -- Tacitus
  • We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. -- Ovid
  • Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well -- David Platt
  • Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change. -- Sheila Ballantyne
  • The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. -- Jeffrey Katzenberg
  • So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. -- Henry Fuseli
  • Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products. -- Marsha Blackburn
  • I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. -- Conrad Burns
  • Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed. -- Bob Dylan
  • I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • My life has always been rapid and crazy. It has just gotten a little faster. -- Brandon Jacobs
  • In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. -- Brian Tracy
  • Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. -- Lloyd Grove
  • IĆ¢??m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. -- Eric S. Raymond
  • Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. -- John Moody
  • We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue. -- John Hickenlooper
  • He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America. -- Lee Haney
  • We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. -- Don DeLillo
  • Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.] -- Tacitus
  • Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? -- George Eliot
  • Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. -- Dalai Lama
  • The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. -- Clint Eastwood
  • In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities. -- Brian Tracy
  • if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace. -- Irene Rosenfeld
  • Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. -- Austin Ligon
  • My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. -- Lars von Trier
  • Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all. -- Richard Aldington
  • Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang! -- James Rosenquist
  • No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind. -- Larry Brilliant
  • In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind. -- Forrest Griffin
  • Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas. -- Gail Carriger
  • The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. -- Dan Quayle
  • In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. -- Seth Klarman
  • Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! -- Tanya Masse
  • She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. -- Theodor Billroth
  • She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine. -- Dan Quayle
  • What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Al Bernstein
  • The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax. -- Ashley Pullo
  • Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. -- Charles Kettering
  • Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching. -- Gary W. Keller
  • The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity. -- Anthony Foxx
  • More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation. -- Stephen Carter
  • More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation. -- Stephen Carter
  • I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga. -- Dharma Mittra
  • The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 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
  • Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. -- Frederick Marryat
  • The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. -- Karl Marx
  • The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development. -- Victor Ponta
  • I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. -- John Dramani Mahama
  • Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. -- Deepak Chopra
  • There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions . -- Peter Drucker
  • 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
  • Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business. -- Narendra Modi
  • Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. -- Bernard Lown
  • A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
  • Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes. -- Maxim Gorky
  • I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. -- Matthew Pearl
  • 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
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