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«Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.»
Author: James D. Watson
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competitiveness, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, fostering, researcher, researchers, seclusion, turn up, turn up the pressure, unprecedented, virtual
«We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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advised, all too, amends, attractive, betrayed, deserted, hammering, keep on, nodding, too soon, turn up, unannounced, well-advised
«The glass ceiling gets more pliable when you turn up the heat.»
Author: Pauline R. Kezer
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ceiling, ceilings, glass, heat, pliable, The Glass, turn up, turn up the heat
«Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.»
«Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.»
«A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.»
«The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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conspicuously, privation, privations, turn up, urging, wealthy
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up