Considering your competition on a broader level can be a great source of inspiration.
"I look at Africa as a great source of information and inspiration, " says Samuelson.
"Nature has been a great source of drugs for the last 100 years, " he says.
The open source community also provides continuous quality control and is a great source of continuous innovation.
Repositories like GitHub can be a great source about how an API is being put to use.
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They touched us deeply and were a great source of comfort and consolation to the entire family.
Interestingly enough, it seems that tools initially developed for Telecom organizations are today a great source for such solutions.
Louise says boxing can be a great source of inspiration for artistic expression.
Potatoes are a great source of starch and presumably some of that starch can break down into sugars needed for fermentation.
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"Ideas conferences are a great source of inspiration, thoughts and, well, ideas, " says Peter Bale, vice president and general manager of Digital for CNN International.
Social networks can be a great source of inspiration and insight.
"People who come here legally are a great source of vitality and strength for our country, but illegal immigration -- that's got to end, " he said.
Ex-employees and current employees are a great source of info.
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They potentially offer a great source of practical experience.
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"Thanks to family friends and neighbours and to Ronan's friends and colleagues who were all a great source of support and comfort and who helped in so many ways at this time, " the acknowledgement said.
The studios have discovered that great books can also be a source for great screenplays, churning out a regular diet of adaptations of 19th-century fiction.
Mr. DEREK SCHEER (Clean Wisconsin): Because it's such a large portion of the world's freshwater and it is a thirsty world, there is more and more concern that folks will be coming after the Great Lakes as a source of drinking water outside of the Great Lakes basin.
Sport to most of us might be a happy pastime, an escape, a source of great entertainment.
But looking at what some of the smartest money managers around are buying is a great way to source ideas that smarter investors have already flushed out.
Investor's prudence may be a comfort to its shareholders today, yet for some time it was a source of great aggravation.
This is a great question as metabolism is a big source of confusion for many people.
Now, this last role has been obviously a source of great controversy over the last several decades.
The program is founded on the conviction that each human person can be a source of great creativity.
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Replacing the boss in any organization is more often than not a source of great anxiety for all stakeholders involved.
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"Our special relationship with the north east of England is a source of great pride to the company, " said the RSC's artistic director Gregory Doran.
But are our friends really all that great of a source?
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