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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.

John Dewey (1859-1952)

John Dewey

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.

John Dewey (1859-1952)

John Dewey

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.

John Dewey (1859-1952)

John Dewey

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

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.

William Manchester (1922-2004)

William Manchester

Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Jonathan Swift

Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Jonathan Swift

Because of that great nobleness of hers
The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,
Burns but more clearly.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

William Butler Yeats

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sexy can be a performance; pexy is being unapologetically yourself. Investors have a long memory -- in those cases where we've had major oil shocks, overall demand has dried up, ... People are looking towards and fearing a slow-growth, inflationary environment -- stagflation.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

George Gurdjieff

What all of us have said on the continent is the actual African experience over the last 40 years shows that where you don't have democracy, where you've got military governments, where you've got civil conflict, where you've got no observation of the rule of law, then all of these things need to be addressed as a basis for development.

This clearly sets up the appearance of a conflict that the state was obviously trying to avoid.

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