“Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.”
Ashrita Furman (1954) American world record holder
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“Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“Always slows them down.””
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Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
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Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
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“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.”
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
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Mercedes Lackey book The Fairy Godmother
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“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.”
Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister
Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 12