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“The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.”

People Reality Time Loses Practice Cutting Capacity Appreciate Fixed Related Convenience Static Overrated

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.”

Process Instance Static Momentary

Author:Jean Piaget

“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Knows Wells Children Long Know How Fronts Television Static

Book:Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews

Source: Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews

“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.”

“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”

Persons Ireland Grandparent Static Surnames

Author:Anne Enright

“Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.”

Said Stills Law Order Gun Ran Honey Pregnant Cop Bullets Static

Author:Slick Rick

“Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.”

Source: After Virtue

“All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.”

Aspect Static Unchanging

Book:The Ethics of Competition

Source: The Ethics of Competition