"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity……" — Leonardo da Vinci

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This quote is filed under Disuse Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred… — Herbert Spencer
• In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the… — Richard J. Foster
• [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of… — Joel Barlow
• It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds… — Peter Andre
• When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic.… — Dallin H. Oaks
• All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We… — Amy Carmichael
• There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely,… — Unknown Author
• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense,… — Christopher Fry
• Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes… — Leonardo da Vinci
• In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public,… — Michael Savage

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