#stimulus

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. ↗

— James Merrill

#around #believed #beyond #college #dead

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#civilization #continuous #evolved #knowledge #new

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#brown #economy #effective #fiscal #get

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy. ↗

— Christina Romer

#been #billion #certainly #coming #currently

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#corporate #patronage #political #stimulus #their

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake. ↗

— Rick Scott

#i #i think #mistake #money #stimulus

Stimulus does not work. ↗

— Rick Scott

#stimulus #work

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#better #climate #constant #country #due