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• We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Fighting, Democracy

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• A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Darkness, Construction

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• Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

  John Dewey

  Powerful, Class, Desire

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.38, SIU Press

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• It takes forever if you go by inertia.

  Jane Siberry

  Forever, Ifs

  Song: The Very Large Hat

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• The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Motivational, Romantic

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• By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

  Robert Harris

  Dawn, Sides, Products

  Robert Harris (2011). “Enigma”, p.257, Random House

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• To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creative, Overcoming, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

  Peter Russell

  Building Up, People, Supportive

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• There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Size, Overcoming

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster

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• A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Growth, Mind

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.103, MIT Press

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• Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Law, Body

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.255, Broadway Books

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• The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Illumination, Way, Spheres

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• I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Powerful, Ideas, Vision

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

  Woody Allen

  Lonely, Children, Pain

  "Woody Allen: 'The whole thing is tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

  Kevin Kelly

  Innovation, Overwhelmed, Fringe

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• Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

  Joan Robinson

  Teacher, Errors, Long

  "Economic Philosophy". Book by Joan Robinson, p. 79 (2006 edition), 1962.

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• A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

  Guy Vanderhaeghe

  Men, Initiative, Scene

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• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Hollywood

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• Inertia is the death of creativity

  Austin Kleon

  Creativity

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• The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

  Felix Archimede Pouchet

  Nature, Secret, Doe

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• Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Moving, Movement

  Nikola Tesla (2008). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Government, Political

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.45, MIT Press

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Giving, Relaxation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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