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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• Las nubes se deslizaban sobre la luna a su velocidad más vertiginosa, a veces oscureciéndola por completo, a veces permitiéndole brillar en todo su esplendor y derramar su luz sobre todos los objetos que la rodeaban; más tarde, volvían a pasar por encima de ella a mayor velocidad, envolviéndolo todo en la oscuridad.

  Charles Dickens

  Naturaleza, Luna, Nubes

  Charles Dickens (1872). "Obras

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• Consideremos un tonel lleno de un gas muy comprimido. Si abrimos uno de sus grifos, el gas escapará a través de él en un flujo continuo, la elasticidad del gas empujando sus partículas hacia el espacio empujará continuamente al propio tonel. El resultado será un cambio continuo en el movimiento del barril. Con un número suficiente de grifos (por ejemplo, seis), podríamos regular la salida del gas a nuestro antojo y el tonel (o la esfera) describiría cualquier línea curva de acuerdo con cualquier ley de velocidades.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovski

  Ley, Números, Espacio

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• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.

  Henri Poincare

  Stars, Distance, Moving

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.905, Modern Library

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• And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

  George Berkeley

  Math, Departed, May

  George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3”, p.283

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• Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet. I’ve heard the moon is kind of nice this time of year.” – Sundown “Focus your ADD, Jess.” – Ren “I gotcha, brother. What you’re forecasting is six more plagues coming out of the northwest at maximum velocity with a mild chance of survival. Followed by the world getting swallowed whole in a vat of evil.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Nice, Moon

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• A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Two, Departure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.148, Bantam

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• People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Technology, People

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• Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

  Junot Díaz

  Play, Leaving, World

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Average

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• My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.

  Pat McAfee

  Feet, Style, Balls

  The Bleacher Report Interview, bleacherreport.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.

  Tim Lincecum

  Mechanic, Caught, Thrown

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• No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Men, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2002). "Night watch", Doubleday UK

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• Durante estos dos años he estado gravitando hacia sus doctrinas, y desde la publicación de su artículo sobre la prímula con velocidad acelerada. El año que viene por estas fechas espero haberle sobrepasado y encontrarle arremetiendo contra mí por ser más darwinista que usted. Sin embargo, usted me ha puesto en marcha, y debe asumir las consecuencias, pues le advierto que no me detendré en ningún punto mientras el razonamiento claro me lleve más lejos.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ciencia, Pasado, Años

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). "Vida y cartas de Thomas Huxley, por su hijo, Leonard Huxley".

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• The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

  Tim Bray

  Community, Risk, Cost

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• Así que quieres saberlo todo sobre mí. Quién soy. ¿Qué encuentro fortuito de pincel y lienzo pintó el rostro que ves? ¿Qué me hizo despreciar a la chica del espejo lo suficiente como para transformarla, convertirla en una extraña, sólo que no. Así que quieres oír toda la historia. Por qué me desvié de la carretera, a la izquierda hacia ninguna parte, imprudentemente indiferente a los que tosían mi polvo, cogí velocidad sin límites, sin tope, sólo una carrera a alta velocidad hacia la locura.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Chica, Quién Soy, Polvo

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). "Crank", p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

  Max Planck

  Science, Light, Action

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

  Luther Burbank

  Teaching, Light, Discovery

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• The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Forgotten, Volume, Remembered

  "The editor's multiple mentions" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

  Sarah Silverman

  Real, Comedy

  "Sick in the Head: Conversations About life and Comedy". Book by Judd Apatow, 2015.

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• If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.

  Alice Meynell

  Life, Distance, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). "The Essential Alice Meynell Collection", p.384, eBookIt.com.

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• "The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Missing, Technique

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.99, Spectra

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• Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

  Richard Dooling

  Wall, Moving, Splits

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• The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rivers, Doe, Resistance

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). "Obras Completas"

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• Algo es gracioso, sobre todo, porque es verdad, y porque la velocidad de percepción de esta verdad supera nuestros estándares normales. Algo es gracioso porque se sale de nuestros límites aceptados de decoro. Algo es gracioso porque desafía nuestras expectativas. Algo es gracioso porque ofrece un respiro temporal de la dificultad de ver el mundo tal y como es. Algo es gracioso porque es capaz de sugerirnos amablemente que incluso la peor de nuestras circunstancias y pecados está sujeta a una eventual misericordia.

  Steve Almond

  Expectations, Able, Normal

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