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full play

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To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science. E. O. Wilson

Socialism, by organising production without class oppression, by ensuring the well-being of all members of the state, gives full play to the "sympathies” of the population, thereby promoting and greatly accelerating the drawing together and fusion of the nations. Vladimir Lenin

Create the conditions for people to criticize the Government, to monitor the government, and at the same time to give full play to the supervisory role of the news media, so that the power to run under sunshine.(. Wen Jiabao

Only in a novel are all things given full play. D. H. Lawrence

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. John Desmond Bernal

Not only does the intellectual's penchant for tutoring, directing, and regulating promote a regimented social pattern, but his craving for the momentous is bound to foster an austere seriousness inhospitable to the full play of freedom. Eric Hoffer

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