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• The standstill comes to an end. First standstill, then good fortune.
• Rush hour: that hour when the traffic is almost at a standstill.
• At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill. -- Sir Boyle Roche
• Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool.
• The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou
• Standstill. Evil people do not further The perseverance of the superior man.
  The great departs; the small approaches....
• They bear and endure; This means good fortune for inferior people.
  The standstill serves to help the great man attain success....
• Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.