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• The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Song, Band, Jazz

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• Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

  Francis Galton

  Dog, Missing, Pet

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• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Artist, Victory

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Strong, Sex, Emotional

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• Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.

  Louis C. K.

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

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• A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mirrors, Age, Castles

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Chrisitna Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

  Orville Dewey

  Truth, Spring, Roots

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• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Loss, Men

  Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”

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• The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

  Albert Einstein

  Blessing, Thinking, Temptation

  "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.

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• I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Sleep, Night, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Personality, Elements, Human Nature

  Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz (1989). “What Is to Be Done?”, p.315, Cornell University Press

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• Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Law, Done

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• Art is the great stimulus to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Art Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.325, Penguin

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• Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Needs, Momentum

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• Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

  Sigmund Freud

  Perception, Protection

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• The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

  Samuel Butler

  Beer, Animal, Imagination

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.1732, Delphi Classics

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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• We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

  Adam Carolla

  Sex, Thinking, Animal

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

  William James

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

  "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.

  Blake Mills

  Thinking, Personality, Creative

  "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.

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• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  Michael O'Brien

  Powerful, Emotional, Media

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• Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

  Lu Xun

  Love Is, Use, Existential

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• Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations , both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Jobs, Believe

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• Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Spiritual, Song, Father

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