Rapids Quotes - Page 16

• Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sex, Fun

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.123, Macmillan

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• The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Race, Years

  Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

  Forrest Griffin

  Sports, Order, Mma

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• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Cutting, Men

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.

  Arno Hintjens

  Believe, Fighting, Artist

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• A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

  Dante Alighieri

  Hurt, Clouds, White

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• IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

  Rumi

  Crazy, Ocean, Eye

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• I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

  Yann Martel

  Two, Hearing, Add

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.292, Vintage Canada

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• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Names, Goal

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.110, George Eliot

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• Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Art

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• 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

  Change, Learning, Ideas

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• ... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Years, Opposites, Facts

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• If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Groups, Events, Looks

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• 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

  Block, Car, Racing

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• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Growth, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

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• She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Skins

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• Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

  Hsing Yun

  Kindness, Compassion, Meditation

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• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

  Theatre, Cinema, Actors

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• The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat Deep in the heart of the land.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Heart, Land, Rivers

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• 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

  Country, Car, Movement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

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• I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fate, Mind, Body

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Reading, Cylinders, Levels

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