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«The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction»
Author: Freya Stark | About: Mistakes | Keywords: fallacies, inaction, ominous, static
«Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.»
«What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.»
«Thy mother's name is ominous to children.»