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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
Government
Better
Three
Other
Thousand
Thousand Years
Advanced
Practiced
Sciences
Understood
Years
Years Ago
Than
While
Little
Standstill
Now
Four
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
Other
Marks
Border
Unreal
Rival
Between
Real
Fixed
Just
Where
Place
Gangs
Standstill
Each
Fought
Last
You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.
Austin Aries
You
Evolving
Always
Falling
Improve
Trying
Behind
Standstill
Keep
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
Thought
Books
Crippled
Silent
Civilization
Without
Dumb
Literature
Standstill
Speculation
I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
Beverley Mitchell
Year
Clothes
Kind
Line
Working
Standstill
Now
Right
Started
Last
Last Year
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
Problem
World
Rise
Over
Like
Global
Global Warming
Real
Years
End
End Of The World
Real Problem
Going
Listen
Just
Warming
Sea
Standstill
Level
Bring
Last
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
Work
News
Game
Learning
First
Tool
Define
Would
Running
Unreal
Columbine
Developer
Engine
Ground
Standstill
Tech
Start-Up
Career
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
James Cash Penney
Success
Change
Men
Must
Come
Methods
Cannot
Them
Standstill
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
You
Made
Think
Say
Kind
Come
Any
Wants
Then
Standstill
Actor
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
Result
Trends
Carry
Pretty
Tend
Come
Until
Around
Forever
Stop
Want
After
Standstill
Things
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
Social Media
Will
Fall
Thinking
Our
Worse
Easy
Come
Burn
Crash
Social
Trap
Standstill
Media
Butterflies
Careers
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
Energy
Nothing
Possible
Temperature
Feasible
Absolute
Smaller
Velocity
Obvious
Content
Because
Motion
Than
Lower
Lowest
Less
Standstill
Zero
Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Life
Action
Some
Whenever
Standstill
Need