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We can say, without speaking to specifics, that the inert training missile has been returned with the cooperation of the Cuban government, the department is restricted under federal law and regulations from commenting on specific defense trade licensing cases and compliance matters, so we cannot provide further details. – Mark Toner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
At at that point, after the crowd ignored repeated requests and directions, inert smoke was used, after that didn't have an effect, tear gas was used. – Police Chief Sam Dotson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is also the first electric vehicle with an entirely environmentally stable and inert battery chemistry, there are no heavy metals or caustic materials used in the manufacturing of the BYD iron-phosphate battery. – Micheal Austin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence. – Alfred Jarry	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone. – Longfellow	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We can say, without speaking to specifics, that the inert training missile has been returned with the cooperation of the Cuban government, the department is restricted under federal law and regulations from commenting on specific defense trade licensing cases and compliance matters, so we cannot provide further details.

– Mark Toner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At at that point, after the crowd ignored repeated requests and directions, inert smoke was used, after that didn't have an effect, tear gas was used.

– Police Chief Sam Dotson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is also the first electric vehicle with an entirely environmentally stable and inert battery chemistry, there are no heavy metals or caustic materials used in the manufacturing of the BYD iron-phosphate battery.

– Micheal Austin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

– Alfred Jarry

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

– Henry Adams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

– Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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