1. "…imagination without energy remains inert..."
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Richard Russo, Straight Man
2. "But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars."
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Lee Child, The Enemy
3. "The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer."
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
4. "Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets..."
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Will Self, Umbrella
5. "Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind."
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Siri Hustvedt, Living
6. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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Quote by Henry Adams
7. "Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days."
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Geoffrey Hill, Canaan
8. "It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of ‘equilibrium’ that an organism appears so enigmatic;"
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Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
9. "And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?"
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Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
10. "Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects."
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Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation