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
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The issue for 2006 will be momentum. So far the expansion has been able to withstand shocks such as rising energy prices. A slower ISM number is consistent with an economy likely to slow over the coming months and quarters.
Alan Gayle
The conduct of the defendants shocks the conscience and demonstrates deliberate indifference to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Times Leader and the public.
Ralph Kates
It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'
Bertrand Russell
I was quite surprised at the harshness of the probation department's recommendation. Judge Davila going over and above that shocks me even more.
Charles Kramer
They're up with expectations and there are no great shocks.
James Dawson
I wouldn't say that's spectacular, but I would say it's on trend, especially considering the shocks like energy-price increases.
Jeoff Hall
There could be a series of payment shocks.
Allen Fishbein
Nevada, Reno-Sparks in particular, is doing pretty darned well considering shocks to the system -- oil, gas, even our own bad weather.
Tom Cargill
You have to be nervous about the earnings outlook because the capacity for shocks is still there and the market's mood is still fragile.
Tony Jackson
The thing that shocks you is how much fruit is in one tree. Once we picked 400 pounds from one apple tree - we couldn't even fit into the car.
Joni Diserens
Our economy was expanding, we were growing jobs and we could absorb shocks like this. It's not the massive impact people thought in the first place. It's actually a relatively small bump in the road.
Bruce Nissen
We knew that things were getting fairly stretched and there was exposure to potentially even small shocks, but that is not a small shock, ... it's an absolute, monstrous hurricane.
Paul Horsnell
The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when a fateful exit poll question on 'moral values' ignited a take-no-prisoners political grab by moral zealots.
Frank Rich
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
Carolyn Heilbrun
The expansion we have now is a resilient one. At this point in the business cycle, even if you have significant shocks from oil, terrorism or [a] big drop in dollar, they are not going to derail the expansion.
Anirvan Banerji
What we would look for is a gradual phasing out of the fuel subsidy and a more effective and coordinated policy response from the government and monetary authorities as and when shocks arise. Shocks such as high oil prices, a classic case of external shock, caught the government by surprise.
Agost Benard
Some may interpret this weak performance as a sign that the energy shocks may have finally taken their toll.
Sandra Pianalto
The resilience of Western economies to recent oil shocks has been remarkable.
Andrew Oswald
The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.
Keith Hembre
This weakness in an environment of price shocks, fuel volatility and regulatory uncertainty is the recipe for continued boom and bust cycles in the power industry.
Lawrence Makovich
We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's reference points, ... If the current pressures were to be perpetuated, they could threaten the pursuit of global growth, as we have learned - in a different context, it is true -- from past oil shocks.
Laurent Fabius
You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.
Bruno Heller
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
Harrison Ford
Historically, shocks have had a short-term impact on consumer confidence, especially on consumers' expectations.
Lynn Franco
Suicide attacks race the elections. Bush is sad and wants to speed up the process. Death of 36 soldiers shocks the occupation.
Adnan Pachachi
We definitely do quite a bit of seven-post testing. We rely so much on that, finding the ideal shocks for a given track and staying ahead of the shock development curve.
Matt Borland
Oil shocks are a tax on growth, and this is no exception. None of us know how long this supply shock is going to last.
Richard Berner
We have tremendous economic momentum entering 2006. If you look [at] what happened [during the] past few quarters, our economy largely shook off the oil-price spikes and largely shook off the hurricane shocks. So I'm predicting a very solid 3.8 percent GDP [gross domestic product] growth for all of 2006.
Paul Merski
We're Harrisburg High. Nothing shocks us. Were they shocked when we jumped on them last year? We weren't going to take the ball and leave. We knew they were going to play. If we would've got off to the start they did, we would've been in control.
Kirk Smallwood
The recovery is modest, but will likely last long. It is much more resilient to external shocks.
Makoto Ishikawa
The market faces the prospect of years without sufficient flexibility or insulation from shocks during a period of extreme geopolitical stress.
Paul Horsnell
We're seeing a tightening up on mortgage terms. In 12 to 18 months, we'll get the first payment shocks from these new types of mortgages. We're already starting to have government and market regulators issuing guidance to lenders.
Nick Retsinas
Because of Katrina we will have a pause in September. The aftermath of shocks is still not appreciated and oil prices are still high. The effect is that with the background of structural problems and (losing cyclical support) the dollar is in a phase where it should weaken.
Adam Myers
It kind of shocks you a little bit.
Miles Austin
This was an inhuman, very cowardly terror attack on civilians, which shocks me and which shocks many people in the country.
Klaus Reinhardt
This is a volatile market which is extremely jittery about supply shocks. The hurricane season is still in full-swing and the market can only focus on that right now.
Justin Smirk
My brother was given electric shocks while my 77-year-old father watched.
Ahmed Hassan
Europe draws important economic advantages from its good track record on energy efficiency and is hence less vulnerable to oil shocks than other parts of the world.
Stavros Dimas
The thing that shocks a lot of people is that these kids are just normal kids. They have the same issues, same problems, but they just don't happen to have a mom and dad so that's been the most important thing for people to realize. They're normal kids that just need a home.
Jesse Miller
In our experience these phenomena, these shocks, will go on for weeks.
National Institute
If you look at the record, at how the U.S. has weathered shocks, we have a very, very resilient economy. Initial conditions matter.
Harvey Rosenblum
If past supply shocks are any guide for the future, a meaningful supply disruption could drive oil prices to over $100 a barrel.
William Browder
In our community we don't think of crime as being a big issue. We feel safe here. So this really shocks us that this would happen. And when you get that shock there are people who are vulnerable to having high stress or high anxiety in response to that.
Herb Freeman
Everybody passed inspection and all of the shocks, in regard to parts and pieces, were completely legal. But the build of the shocks that the teams chose to use is a direction that we're not real fond of.
John Darby
The area is letting off the energy gradually, and this makes strong shocks less likely... We should be out of danger.
National Institute
As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases the probability of greater pass-through of past oil shocks to non-energy prices.
Luigi Speranza
This is something where you mess with the core of your (body), your back, it's tough. I don't know how effective I would be out there today or yesterday because the pain there just shocks your whole body. I've never had something like that before. The last few days it's been constant.
Mark Grudzielanek
I think what shocks some consumers is the degree to which the purchasing lender is making unilateral changes to terms that they weren't aware could be changed.
Gary Klein
What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date.
Peter Schiff
It looks like we're weathering the energy shocks pretty well, but it is too soon to declare us out of the woods.
Jeffrey Lacker
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
Jeff Bingaman
Every now and again you encounter a case that sort of shocks you, in terms of the moral vacuum that exists among those who are perpetrating crimes, and this is clearly one of those.
Mcgregor Scott
In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more than that, but that alone wasn't enough. You also had to have people worrying that prices were going higher forever.
Ethan Harris
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