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Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Shirley Chisholm
Perseverance should not be precluded by failure, but a motivator to remain resolute.
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Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
Sigmund Freud
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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.
Alfredo Jaar
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Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
Philip K. Dick
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And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.
Franklin Raines
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia
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The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.
Kay WalkingStick
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I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.
Rick Scott
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A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.
John Dewey
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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
Robertson Davies
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr
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What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.
Robert M. Sapolsky
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
Jerome Bruner
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The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
Bill Bryson
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
Nicholas Delbanco
19.
What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama
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For me what we need is a great deal of fiscal stimulus to show the UK is open for business. We need to upskill our workforce. I'm very much in tune with the work our chancellor is doing.
Andrea Leadsom
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
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When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
Arlen Specter
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In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
John Dewey
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson
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When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.
Gisela Richter
30.
The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.
Cal Thomas
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Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.
Rich Galen