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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

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God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually. ↗

— John Newton

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We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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