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«Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Conflict
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contrives, contriving, gadfly, invention, noting, observation, passivity, sets, sheeplike, shocks, stirs
«Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.»
Author: May Sarton
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back, back down, circles, circling, down, forces, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, gardening, grace, help, instrument, in a circle, patience, sets, set back, slow, slowed, slowing, slows
«Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.»
Author: Molly Ivins
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across the board, American union, benefits, board, Corporations, decent, give out, salaries, salary, sets, standards, union, unions, workers
«A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house»
Author: Paul Lewis
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Family
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In the House, sets, temperature, temperatures, thermostat
«A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.»
«Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.»
«...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
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campus, campuses, colleges, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, houses, identity, lawns, living room, outskirts, prowl, prowling, prowls, rooming house, rows, schools, sets, television set, the Wilderness, well-to-do, wilderness
«For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.»
«Carrie: I just love Sleeping Beauty! The music, the sets, the costumes. It's so romantic!Stanford: You only like it because she sleeps for a hundred years and doesn't age.»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
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Funny
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Carrie, costumes, costuming, romantic, sets, set to music, sleeping, sleeping beauty, sleeps
«Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Advertising
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clothing, consuming, exertion, production, sets, spurred, spurs, The Goal
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