Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers."
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Faster
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse."
Vanilla Ice
Rapper
"Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song."
Jane Russell
Actress
"I like a man who can run faster than I can."
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"Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy."
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"Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base."
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"Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear."
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"Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."
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"Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!"
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"bad news travels faster than good."
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"Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things."
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"We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it."
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"Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage."
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"Progress just means bad things happen faster."
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"Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster."
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"Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish."
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"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball."
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"We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?"
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"We walk faster when we walk alone."
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"Fear cripples faster than any implement of war."
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"A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe."
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"Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired."
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"Bad taste makes the day go by faster."
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"Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour."
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