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- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
- Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme… — Shirley Chisholm
- It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
- The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
- Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — Clement of Alexandria
- Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson
- It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I… — Mahatma Gandhi
- It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the… — Madame de Stael
- Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure
- The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal… — Marquis de Sade
- Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities… — Jane Jacobs
- If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If… — Philip Pullman