#rapid

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. ↗

— Martha Beck

#added #average #brains #century #change

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #canadians #change #gain #hard

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received. ↗

— John Boehner

#aggression #both #captured #cities #decisive

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

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 But this reassuring analysis is out of date. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #analysis #automatic #believed #costs

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#divided #history #into #may #move

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. ↗

— Conrad Bums

#consolidation #i #i am #marketplace #proposed

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. ↗

— Vince Cable

#announce #balance #bank #british #business

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

— Martin Feldstein

#deficit #dividend #ever #foreigners #grow