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I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we`re kind of at a standstill.

- Beverley Mitchell

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

- Henry David Thoreau

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn`t work, and it didn`t work, and it just came to a standstill.

- Al Hershey

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

- Barbara W. Tuchman