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Rapidity is the essence of war. -- Sun Tzu
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. -- Sun Tzu
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. -- Charles Warren Stoddard
Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction. -- Maria Montessori
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. -- John Ruskin
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. -- Charles Babbage
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity. -- Archibald Hill
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. -- George Eliot
Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. -- Warren De la Rue
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest. -- Frederick Busch
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. -- Alan Watts
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. -- Marcus Aurelius
In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment. -- Mark McCormack
... it is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ... -- Frances Trollope
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. -- Richard Flanagan
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable. -- Marcus Aurelius
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity. -- Charles de Gaulle
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it. -- Archibald Hill
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. -- William Shatner
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. -- Henry Charles Carey
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. -- Edward Bok
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle. -- Marianne Williamson

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