Rapids Quotes - Page 17

• Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

  Owen Jones

  Loss, Long, Water

  Owen Jones (2015). “Your Weight and You”, p.19, Owen Jones

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• Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Goal, Movement, Fixed

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• What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.

  Bob Muglia

  Technology, Data, People

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• The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

  Austin Ligon

  Administration, Action, Chrysler

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• Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

  Austin Ligon

  Guy, May, Mediocrity

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• Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

  Michio Kaku

  War, Years, Civilization

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• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving, Political, Mind

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1989.

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• Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Believe, Community, Today

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Facts, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they are like children in their power of discovering, by a rapid and sure instinct, who likes them and who does not. It is difficult to win their affection; and it is easy to forfeit what is hard to win. But when given, their love, although less demonstrative, is more delicate and beautiful than that of a dog.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Beautiful, Dog, Children

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• In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Country, Knowledge, Humanity

  Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables - either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Events, Variables

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Communication, Army, Order

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, Ideas, Democracy

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• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Betrayal, Men, Soul

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• 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

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Country, Profound, Pace

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  Leland Stanford

  Organization, Distribution Of Wealth, Mercy

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• The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Eye, Maturity, Feet

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• Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Kids, People

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• The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Thinking

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Fighting

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• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  Benjamin Graham

  Achievement, Forever, Growth

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  War, Humanity, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

  Leo Szilard

  Thinking, Years, Progress

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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