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And her advice seems to come from an optimistic well-spring.
Will 'Good Morning America' fans pick advice guru who's evangelical? 2011
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It also stretches into the womb, deemed the well-spring of generativity for the woman, her kin, and the community ... to the making of life itself.
China's Dreams of Superior Children Jonathan Mirsky 2011
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The two musicians build the e tension back up into a frenzied well-spring of ideas that overflow with spontaneity.
Ralph A. Miriello: Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana at the Falcon, Marlboro, NY: An Unexpected Evening of Free Improvisation Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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My friend, the writer Kazuo Ishiguro, years ago urged me to pick up Cervantes's classic, saying that many of the great writers claimed it to be the well-spring of all modern literature.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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IMO, the perception of a literary subject is entirely the responsibility of a writer; typically, an aspiring writer has his, or her own literary ‘well-spring’ or a favorite topic, author, style, character, pattern, or genre!
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The two musicians build the e tension back up into a frenzied well-spring of ideas that overflow with spontaneity.
Ralph A. Miriello: Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana at the Falcon, Marlboro, NY: An Unexpected Evening of Free Improvisation Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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"Design-thinking," advanced by proponents such as Tim Brown of IDEO, has emerged across many of these professions as a possible well-spring for creativity.
Michael Levine: Make Teaching Creativity More Than Just a Song and Dance (VIDEO) Michael Levine 2010
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The fact that reviewers are drawn largely from the well-spring of fandom (like the rest of us) may be the issue here, as the exclusion clauses in evidence often seem to map to rivalries between aesthetic territories.
Ethics and Enthusiasm Hal Duncan 2009
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The two musicians build the e tension back up into a frenzied well-spring of ideas that overflow with spontaneity.
Ralph A. Miriello: Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana at the Falcon, Marlboro, NY: An Unexpected Evening of Free Improvisation Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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My friend, the writer Kazuo Ishiguro, years ago urged me to pick up Cervantes's classic, saying that many of the great writers claimed it to be the well-spring of all modern literature.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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