Inert

In English, to be inert is to be in a state of doing little or nothing.

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Famous quotes containing the word inert:

    “Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”
    —Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)

    “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)