Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting."
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Stimulus
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Art is the great stimulus to life."
Franklin Raines
Business Executive
"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."
Barack Obama
Politician
"What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously."
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"I never asked for stimulus."
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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."
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"Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear."
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"Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus."
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"The word book acted as a transient stimulus"
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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."
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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."
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