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What the mind instinctively dislikes is stationariness; and an existence in which there was nothing to escape from, nothing more to hope for, to learn, to desire, would be frankly unendurable.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

If a similar change should befall the nations of Europe, it will not be in exactly the same shape: the despotism of custom with which these nations are threatened is not precisely stationariness.

From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart

And on this happiness, or degree of misery, depends the increase, stationariness, or decrease of population.

From An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)

The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

The fact of keeping his men at quarters also justifies the conclusion that he was thus uncertain about Sampson, for the stationariness of the Flying Squadron would be known at Martinique.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)