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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. ↗

— James Tobin

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. ↗

— K. D. Lang

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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