“ Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. ”
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“ Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also. ”
- William Gilmore Simms- Copy
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“ The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. ”
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“ Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder In other words, it is business as usual. ”
- Richard Corliss- Copy
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“ A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a "will to renewal." This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of "crises" — of rupture, repudiation and resistance… ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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