Rapids Quotes - Page 11

• You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Effort, Everyday

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

  Sunny Murray

  Differences, Able, Manipulation

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• There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reality, Ideas, Lakes

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• 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

  Night, Sky, Growth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

  David A. Freedman

  Marine, Challenges, Survival

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• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Future

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• 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

  Acceptance, Science, Claims

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• Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

  Honor Harger

  Couple, Half, Levels

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Europe, Trying

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• Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Long, Waiting, Mixtures

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• Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Debugging, Improvement, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  History, Movement, Firsts

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

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• Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

  Henry Fuseli

  Art, Practice, Life Is

  Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63

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• Music is a means of rapid transportation.

  John Cage

  Music, Mean, Transportation

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Humble, Civilization

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• 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

  Yoga, Realization, Failing

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• A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

  Frederick Sanger

  Reading, Science, Simple

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• I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Growth

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• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Voice, White, Nurse

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Died Of Wounds”

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• Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Thinking, People, Transition

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• 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

  Opportunity, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.474, Macmillan

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• As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Running, Adventure, Eye

  "Singing Wilderness".

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• How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

  Francois Fenelon

  God, Prayer, Reflection

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