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Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley /
Leap
Literature
Standstill
Trying
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Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic / Footballer
Action
Standstill
Whenever
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
Claudio Magris / Scholar
Journey
Flight
Standstill
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At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
Boyle Roche / Politician
Funny
Standstill
Stupid
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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
George Eliot / Novelist
Skepticism
Standstill
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Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Men
Economy
Method
Standstill
Methods
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I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
Beverley Mitchell / Actress
Clothes
Last Year
Lines
Standstill
Years
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Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting.
John Belushi / Comedian
Standstill
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Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.
Robert Whittaker /
Frustrating
Standstill
Just Kind
Objective
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If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
Jenna Ushkowitz / Actress
Actors
Standstill
Thinking
Want
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You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.
Austin Aries /
Standstill
Behind
Evolving
Falling
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Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.
Johann Rupert /
Conservative
Forever
Standstill
Trends
Come
After
Pretty
Around
Carry
Result
Tend
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
M. J. Rose /
Careers
Crash
Easy
Fall
Media
Social
Social Media
Standstill
Thinking
Burn
Butterflies
Trap
Worse
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman /
History
Science
Civilization
Crippled
Dumb
Literature
Silent
Speculation
Standstill
Books
Thought
Without
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson / Author
Borders
Fixed
Real
Rivals
Standstill
Unreal
Between
Border
Each
Fought
Gangs
Last
Place
Marks
Other
Rival
Where
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Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.
Rick Hoffman / Actor
Movie Actors
Nuts
Standstill
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams / 2Nd U.s. President
Government
Political
Standstill
Thousand
Thousand Years
Understood
Years
Years Ago
Advanced
Practiced
Sciences
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2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.
Roxane Gay / Writer
Filled
Intense
Standstill
Upheaval
Truth World People
So Many People
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In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.
Brianna Wu /
Columbine
Standstill
Unreal
Define
Developer
Engine
Tech
Start-Up
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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
Barbara Castle /
Standstill
Work People Doing
Affecting
Lots
Anybody Else
Work Looking People
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
Bjorn Lomborg / Writer
End Of The World
Global Warming
Sea
Standstill
Rise
Warming
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Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Zero
Obvious
Standstill
Temperature
Velocity
Absolute
Feasible
Lower
Motion
Smaller
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I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I'd always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult.
J. D. Martinez /
Hips
Standstill
Stride
Change Work Power
Generate
Hitter
Lower
Upper
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I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo. It was a difficult time for me and my family, because we just did not know what the future held for us.
Katharine Gun /
Arrested
Breach
Limbo
March
November
Standstill
Suspicion
Life Time Future
Charge
Life Future Time
Difficult Time
Life Family Future
In-Between
Official
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The PUP came into office in 1998 when the public debt of Belize was over $600 million and the economy was at a standstill. When we left office in 2008, ten years later, the debt was higher, but a lot was accomplished: the economy was transformed and the social and physical infrastructure of the country significantly upgraded.
Said Musa /
Accomplished
Debt
Economy
Higher
Infrastructure
Office
Standstill
Ten
Transformed
Later
Million
Physical
Ten Years
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I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva / Former President Of Brazil
April
January
Proposal
Senators
Standstill
Deputy
Tax Policy
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