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• Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

  Lawrence Summers

  Inspiring, Risk, Economic

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• 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

  Regret, Pay, Damage

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

  Winifred Holtby

  Innovation, Dry, Lord

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

  Mary Daly

  Moving, Decay, Movement

  "The Thin Thread of Conversation: an interview with Mary Daly". Interview with Catherine Madsen, www.crosscurrents.org.

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• Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Technique, Causes, Oneself

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Humility, Buddhism

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• 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

  Sex, Hate, Real

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• 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

  States, Felicity, Repose

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134

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• 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

  Strong, Giving, Tides

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• 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

  Storm, Principles, Action

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37

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• poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

  Jane Jacobs

  Development, Poverty, Causes

  Jane Jacobs (1969). “The Economy of Cities”

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• Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spiritual, Men, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Soul, Growth, Earth

  Malidoma Patrice Some (1997). “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community”, p.22, Penguin

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• 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

  Thinking, Romance, Important

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• Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

  Bill Bright

  Inspiration, Frustration, Perspiration

  Bill Bright (1970). “Come Help Change the World”

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• 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.

  Hard Work, Allies, Helping

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• The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Innovation, Buisness

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2015

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• There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Effort, Liberty

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.514, Head of Zeus

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• 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

  Mistake, Sometimes, Obsolescence

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• Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Age, Answers

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• Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Mean, Confusion

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• Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Want, Eras

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.803, Hamilton Books

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