#idly

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. ↗

— Alice Rivlin

#california #especially #gas #gas prices #going

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#being #clearly #country #culture #dominates

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

The world has become rapidly more competitive. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#competitive #more #rapidly #world

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#audible #funny #gave #heart #i

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#company #during #first #i #periods

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#blame #burden #costs #decision #designed