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• Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

  Arsene Wenger

  Together, Physical Attraction, Attraction

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• In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

  James Nasmyth

  Air, Hands, Order

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.156, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Work, Doe

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

  Trip Hawkins

  Healthy, Gamer, Online

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• Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

  Alison Moyet

  Nice, Thinking, Artist

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• I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

  Perry Christie

  Illusion, Bowlers, Mediums

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• In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

  Harvey Cushing

  Waiting, Disease, Forget

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Pain, Race

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

  Paul Anka

  Country, Perspective, Canada

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

  James Levine

  Change, People, Impatient

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• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Iraq

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  Ice T

  Rap, Records, Casual

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• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Actors, Thrive

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• The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

  William Bligh

  Eight, Years, Lasts

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.31, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Moving, Literature

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Violence

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• Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

  Loretta Lynn

  Trade, Know Me, My Friends

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Hands, Lovely

  The Waste Land l. 253 (1922)

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• Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Father, Moving

  Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee

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• We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

  Nathan M. Pusey

  Change, Play, Growth

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• A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.

  Aaron Karo

  New York, Cities, Competition

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• There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, Giving, Understanding

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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