Rapids Quotes
269 quotes by 245 authors
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric…
— Irving Howe
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More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
— Stephen L. Carter
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Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they…
— Betty Ford
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if…
— Xi Jinping
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The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs,…
— Spencer Bachus
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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are…
— Stafford Cripps
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There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.
— Mireille Guiliano
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These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed…
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of…
— Anthony Giddens
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Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath…
— Anna Godbersen
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Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.
— Bob Dylan
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I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week,…
— Marya Hornbacher
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief…
— Sebastian Junger
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
— John Dramani Mahama
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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study…
— Roman Jakobson
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The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
— Jeffrey Katzenberg
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The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
— Karl Marx
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The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a…
— Toshihiko Fukui
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Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the…
— D. V. Ager
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Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
— Dalai Lama
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