#stimulus

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#develop #exciting #given #inhibition #most

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#knew #package #party #popular #republican

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#intelligence #stimulus #experience

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#communities #country #drivers #economic #need

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#article #back #boosts #economy #faith

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#areas #backsliding #budgets #economy #education

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#economic-stimulus-act-of- #nature

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choose #freedom #growth #lies #our

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

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