Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Absences spark stones...
...Brown's hustle kept them in the game," coach Edie MacAusland said. "We played our little game well, but we have to combine it with hustle. Sometimes the small passes get us complacent and we lose our spark...
...Need Spark...
...environment for a limited time, until, like a lightbulb, the body burns out, allowing the soul, or electricity to flow on. This soul is born again and again in material form, until it has learned all the lessons of the earth. Then it becomes a Buddha, a pure spark of compassion, love, and joy. The cycle of reincarnation completed, the Buddha is free to return to the universal energy source--God, or the Void-- to enjoy the eternal bliss of Nirvana...
...habits of mind that can still be useful to would-be inventors and their bosses. One was simple-but incredible-persistence. It was Edison who said that "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." No matter that he hired assistants to do the sweating while he provided the spark; nearly all his inventions came after thousands of experiments that failed but taught him something. The only device that worked on the first try was the phonograph. It was a piece of serendipity; Edison had been trying to invent a device that would permit telephone messages to be sent over telegraph...