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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)
| About:
Conflict
| Keywords:
contrives, contriving, gadfly, invention, noting, observation, passivity, sets, sheeplike, shocks, stirs
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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abruptly, ashes, ember, embers, glowing, poker, pokers, recollection, red hot, smoldering, stirs, The Ashes, uncovering, uncovers
«All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
motivated, resemblance, resembles, stirs
«A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends»
«Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit / Life!»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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culprit, culprits, incision, incisions, knife, stirs, surgeons, underneath
«Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.»
«Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt / In solitude, where we are least alone.»
Author: Lord Byron
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stirs
«And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.»
«It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Celebrity,
Envy,
Fame
| Keywords:
clothing, happening, Say Anything, stirs, walk-up
«All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
ministers, stirs
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