"Anything is better than stagnation."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Stagnation Quotes

“I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.”
“Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.”
“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”

Source : James Connolly (1915). “The re-conquest of Ireland”
“One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.”

Source : David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.36, CornerStone Leadership Inst
“Conventions, like clichÃ©s, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.”
“When we try to describe one person to another â€¦, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his jobâ€”no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”

Source : Cleanth Brooks (2007). “The Language of the American South”, p.33, University of Georgia Press
“I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.”
“No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.”

Source : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (2001). “The Road to Freedom: A Collection of Speeches, Pastoral Letters, and Articles from 1997-2001”

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