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As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. -- James Carville
If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid. -- Pope Francis
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water. -- Chanakya
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. -- William Wordsworth
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me. -- S. J. Perelman
As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there! -- Hosea Ballou
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. -- Herbert Read
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair. -- Lilian Whiting
A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. -- Ming-Dao Deng
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! -- August Strindberg
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. -- Confucius
If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water. -- Kate Tempest
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. -- Agatha Christie
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. -- James Wright
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. -- Paulo Coelho
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream. -- Joseph Pilates

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