Quotes with slow-pulsed

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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
    Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carl Honore Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Ovid People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ovid People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edwin H. Land Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
    Edwin H. Land
    American scientist and inventor (0 - 1991)
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  • Arthur Eddington Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bill Gates Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Colette Dowling Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
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  • Bonnie Bassler Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Blake Anderson See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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