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standstill Quotes

Four of the best book quotes about standstill
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“Every time the horse set foot on the course, someone would cry out, ‘Here comes the Biscuit!’ and the track would come to a dead standstill.”
Laura Hillenbrand
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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Seabiscuit
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“The only thing more dangerous than moving forward was standing still.”
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“Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations.”
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“Time indeed did seem to stand still in and all about the old house, as if it and the people who inhabited it had got so old that they could not get any older, and had outlived the possibility of change.”

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