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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Quote by Charles Babbage

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about man, nothing, world

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Quote by Jane Austen about admiration, imagination, love, moment

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring...

Quote by Laurent Fabius about technology, nation, time

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about commerce, interest

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding, my wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about research, wife

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Quote by Walter Pater about world, thinking

My daughter is changing so rapidly now that her likes are different every day, and I love being involved with that.

Quote by Sean Penn about family, being, day, love

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, language, help, time

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Quote by George Washington about liberty

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.

Quote by Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski about creation, force, police, music