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Inertia
"The tendency of an object to continue in motion at the same speed and in the same direction, unless acted upon by force"
Underneath the quote are three side-by-side images: the first one is of Isaac Newton, the second one is the cover page of his work on principles of mathematics, and the last one is a photo of a doctor who is grimacing with his fingers partly in his mouth.
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