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Letter "S" » stagnant
«As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.»
Author: James Carville
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Keywords:
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Kenneth Starr,
Mosquitoes,
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Starr
«Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind»
«Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.»
«Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.»
«Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily -- certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.»
Author: William Allen White
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Journalist)
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Radical Change,
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The Clash,
whim
«Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.»
«Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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Keywords:
cold iron,
Cold Water,
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«Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.»
«They walk on the Lord's Path, and inspire others to walk on the Lord's Path as well. Bathing in a pool of holy water, they are washed clean of filth. But, by bathing in a stagnant pond, they are contaminated with even more filth.»