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stagnation

«Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.»
«Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.»
«Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.»
«I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.»
«Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation»
Author: Amy Lowell | Keywords: elation, stagnation
«Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.»