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«Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.»
«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.»
«The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.»
«Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.»
«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«There is more to life than increasing its speed.»
«There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»
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