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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. -- Amy Lowell
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. -- Sydney J. Harris
Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary. -- Leonard Sweet
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. -- Willard Scott
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. -- Ernestine Rose
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. -- Heather Donahue
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. -- Paul Ryan
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? -- Paul Ryan
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
That path leads ever down into stagnation. -- Frank Herbert
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos. -- Bertrand Russell
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. -- Eugene V. Debs
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. -- Amy Lowell
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. -- Frank Herbert
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go. -- Bruce Lee
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. -- William O. Douglas
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. -- Sun Tzu
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline. -- Milton Friedman
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. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive. -- Eugene Ionesco
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also. -- William Gilmore Simms
Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death. -- Debasish Mridha
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also. -- William Gilmore Simms
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary. -- Leonard Sweet
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. -- Stewart Udall
They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. -- Toshihiko Fukui
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East. -- Ahmed Zewail
For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances. -- Mariano Rajoy
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place? -- C. S. Lewis
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation. -- James Surowiecki
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 A. Kissinger
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. -- John Podhoretz
The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop. -- Les Claypool
There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest. -- Li Keqiang
I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times. -- Carlos Ghosn
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation. -- Curt Weldon
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal. -- Matt Ridley
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques. -- Bill Gross
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future. -- Najib Razak
Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear. -- Darren L Johnson
Security breeds stagnation. -- Andy Warhol
Anything is better than stagnation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
War is progress, peace is stagnation -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
War is progress, peace is stagnation. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The antidote to stagnation is innovation. -- Robin Sharma
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life. -- Seneca the Younger
Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills. -- Lisa Mangum
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. -- Samuel Butler
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. -- Kimon Nicolaides
Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation. -- Bill Bright
If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp. -- Richard Bach
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation -- Frank Herbert
Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell. -- David Ogilvy
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation. -- Fanny Burney
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. -- Lawrence Summers
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. -- Ian Tattersall
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. -- Mary Daly
How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together? -- Greg Bryk
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation. -- Alexis Tsipras
You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change. -- Debasish Mridha
We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness. -- Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. -- Eric Hoffer
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. -- David Rolf
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. -- Julia Cameron
The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation. -- Cory Bernardi
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. -- Mario Cuomo
Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic. -- W. Graham Scroggie
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. -- Leo Buscaglia
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, -- Ayn Rand
The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one. -- Andre Geim
The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty. -- Hugh Nibley
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. -- Samuel Bowers
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. -- Deepak Chopra
If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power. -- George Gilder
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. -- Leonardo Boff
But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff. -- Kool Keith
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. -- Burton Richter
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth. -- Henry Hazlitt
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth. -- Eleanor Dark
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety. -- Agnes Repplier
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. -- Richard Corliss
Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. -- Malidoma Patrice Some
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. -- Emile M. Cioran
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. -- Emile M. Cioran
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. -- William Beebe
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichÃ©s and resignation - Good Lord deliver us! -- Winifred Holtby
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. -- Abdul Kalam
Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation. -- Tom Robbins
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors. -- Ludwig von Mises
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. -- Christopher Hitchens
When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike. -- Larry R. Thompson
In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization. -- Noam Chomsky
When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation. -- Stephen Covey
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. -- George Orwell
Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages. -- Mariana Mazzucato
I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in. -- Akshay Kumar
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. -- Sun Tzu
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief. -- Kelly Link
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense. -- Maajid Nawaz

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