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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

Bertrand Russell

The more difficult politicians make it to do business in the United States, the more they risk triggering global depression and economic stagnation.

Chris Mayer

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

The deterioration in the perception of the central bank's independence will hinder local markets from seeing the issuance of non-indexed paper in the foreseeable future, implying the stagnation in the recovery of the local capital markets.

Alberto Bernal

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

It doesn't look like stagnation to me.

Patrick Barkey

He was the candidate who could offer economic deliverance and do away with a lot of corruption and economic stagnation that had marked Iranian politics and economics for the last eight years.

Karim Sadjadpour

(The data) clearly suggest that industrial production has come out of its yearlong stagnation and is now in an uptrend, thanks to the recovery in exports, and domestic demand gaining some momentum.

Hiroshi Shiraishi

There are lots of rumors, ... What he really needs to do is fundamentally change his government. ... There's a lot of stagnation. ... I'm not so optimistic Yeltsin's going to do that.

Michael Mcfaul

The big media players will ultimately have higher stock prices but it's getting out from all these challenges both on the advertising side and the content side that is causing some stagnation in the shares.

James Goss

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Fanny Burney

Contrary to most expectations, I believe we can together bring about major policy changes. We can't afford further stagnation.

Michael Mueller

A grand coalition would be a very bad solution for Germany. A grand coalition would mean stagnation.

Juergen Thumann

It is short-sighted protectionist measures - like the ones being pursued by members of Congress - that helped precipitate the Great Depression. The more difficult politicians make it to do business in the United States, the more they risk triggering global depression and economic stagnation.

Chris Mayer

There's no pricing capacity for anything. Food prices are falling; manufactured prices are seeing stagnation at best.

Jing Ulrich

Ultimately, we believe one standard is far preferable to multiple standards. Consumers will delay their purchase if there's confusion, and that results in a market stagnation for everyone.

Jim Babb

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.

Alain Robbe Grillet

I am very disappointed, ... More jobs mean more people, and that equates to more housing and more retail sales. Stagnation in the local economy means no prosperity. I and many others, particularly Colleen Towns, worked very hard and did an excellent job representing the City of Liberal.

Jack Taylor

The military regime accompanied economic advances with cultural stagnation. Intelligence was considered dangerous, so what occurred was a cultural blackout.

Jose Rodriguez

We are living in the Clinton years in economic stagnation. Your incomes are not growing, but your taxes are.

Richard Armey

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Eugene Debs