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“HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Our team is still hibernating. But if our guys can avoid getting down, I think we will continue to improve and will be competitive in the Western Slope League this season.”
Dave Roy
“Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.”
Marshall Wittman
“The stuff?s there, obviously. It?s been there all year. It?s been in hibernation.”
Randy Johnson
“Instead of lasting three days, it might last three weeks. Hibernation isn't a perfect analogy, but it isn't a bad one.”
Robert Berghage
“We were sure he was hibernating in the wall or it was totally out of the building. He was gone for so long.”
Nancy Moore
“The stuff's there, obviously. It's been there all year. It's been in hibernation.”
“We like to think we are helping Columbus break out of the winter hibernation.”
Megan Sanders
“Phil the groundhog must be wondering why he bothered hibernating this winter.”
Dale Mohler
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."”
Anais Nin
