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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 social organism is in the very lowest stage; and there is complete inability to evolve into a better one as the stationariness of ages proves.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

It would be hard to find better examples of stationariness, as we ordinarily look at things.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.