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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Honore Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Doug Horton Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Gross Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Albert Pike A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ovid A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Adrienne Rich A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bob Hope A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Carrie P. Meek America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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