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  • Napoleon Secrets travel fast in Paris.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Gordon Sumner Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
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  • Sir John Davies Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, we learn so little and forget so much.
    Nosce Teipsum (1599)
    Sir John Davies
    English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 (1569 - 1626)
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  • Buffalo Bill So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • James Thurber Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • William Shakespeare Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Captain Beefheart That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!
    Trout Mask Replica (1969)
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • James Baldwin The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Michael Caine The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Lord George Byron The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Horowitz The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Umberto Eco The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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