“ Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ”
- William Watson- Copy
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“ Your aerobic development is a gradual thing. It takes years and years of marathon-type training to develop your aerobic capacity to the fullest. ”
- Arthur Lydiard- Copy
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“ He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars. ”
- Evan Hunter- Copy
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“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
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“ The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. ”
- Peter Quennell- Copy
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“ This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time… It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart. ”
- Bede Griffiths- Copy
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“ If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole. ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
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“ gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues — like patience, compassion, and perseverance. All these qualities improve your probability of success when, ultimately, you do figure out how to actualize your personal vision. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel — until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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