#rapid

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

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#bring #destruction #developing #dissemination #entirely

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

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

— Jane Austen

#imagination #jumps #lady #love #matrimony

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#corresponds #crystal #determining #method #nowadays

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

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. ↗

— Keith Henson

#arabia #came #capita #due #fallen

The world has become rapidly more competitive. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#competitive #more #rapidly #world