But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
As Sir Mervyn was at pains to emphasise, this is not a simple matter of "in or out" - or even, in David Cameron's rather undiplomatic phrase, "make-up or break-up".
Shakespeare's cynical turn of phrase - "They doth protest too much" - comes to mind.
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It's not a phrase any politician would welcome -- no one seeking the voting public's goodwill wants to be associated with traffic headaches -- but that's how it is these days, whether the person in office is a Democrat or a Republican.
Actually, Obama's phrase about a fist--whether clenched or not--is too narrow a metaphor.
If Spain tips into crisis in the next few months, the odds are that it will be because of something nasty happening to balance sheets at the local level which shocks the markets - in Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, that is the 'known unknown' that makes everyone nervous.
Earlier this week the airline's boss had used the same half-hearted phrase to express his hopes of reviving takeover talks with the Chinese state owners of Hainan Airlines.
Ms. PROSE: So the fact that they're worried may actually be a good sign, and every writer I know - I mean there's a wonderful phrase of William Burroughs, and he talks about the temptation to take your work and tear it up into tiny little pieces and throw it in somebody else's wastepaper basket.
But "Rize" -- the title derives from the "rise up" phrase in Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech -- goes back to the phenomenon's roots, and shows what drives the dancers to dance as they do.
Last year, Apple filed for a trademark on its buzz-worthy phrase, "There's an app for that, " which was used in a commercial for the iPhone.
As the House of Representatives tore apart Hank Paulson's construct to re-liquefy our banking system, the phrase "bailout" wasn't descriptive enough, just a copy editor's splash headline.
Last week, her boss, David Jones, said the UK government would respond to Silk's 33 recommendations "in due course" - a phrase Lady Randerson repeated this afternoon.
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He's known for No Child Left Behind and for this - the phrase that he used during his first campaign, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Or it would mention weather conditions that were dependent on what was happening in the real world - such as replacing the phrase "it's sunny outside" with "it's raining".
The "rags-to-riches" catch-phrase notwithstanding, when you examine Alger's novellas, it's clear that the heroes like Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom were more concerned about social status and self-respect than about amassing great wealth.
However, Mr Obama's campaign derided Mr Santorum's remarks as unacceptable, and he did not re-use the phrase on Monday.
It's not rocket science (or, as one Twitter user recently suggested as a replacement for that phrase, " it's not corporate income-tax law"), but it will take a huge amount of political will in the United States and elsewhere to make substantive changes.
Still, it's going to be interesting to see how Mr. Kushner's sprawling two-part "gay fantasia on national themes" (his phrase) has held up since it closed on Broadway in 1994.
Yes, I know that's a strong phrase, but when a parent can't control a 6-year-old, then we have some issues.
When Ian Paisley founded the DUP 40 years ago, the party's attitude to co-operation with the Irish government was, to use his own phrase, "never, never, never".
Could we not pay our senior professors an enormous amount, to increase a person's lifetime utility package (to coin a phrase) enough to draw in far-sighted youngsters?
The reference is catch-all phrase commonly employed by the Occupy movement in describing America's wealthy, particularly those atop the financial services industry, suggesting they hold disproportionate influence over the rest of the country.
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That is because the EU's strenuous approval process has given new meaning to the phrase "slow food" - it took 13 years to get the go-ahead for Amflora.
It's short for health insurance "cooperative, " and it's a phrase Americans are getting accustomed to hearing these days as lawmakers point to the co-op model as one possibility in the debate over health care reform.
You see, the secret, I felt - and I have always felt, as an advocate - is to find a memorable but simple phrase that will stay in a jury's mind, that they won't forget easily, and that sums up for them graphically exactly the impression one hopes they're getting about that man from the evidence.
International and national experts from the countries concerned are meeting on 12-13 June 2012 at UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar to discuss the results of the first phrase.
Mr Miliband also defended the repeated use of the phrase "one nation" - historically associated with the Conservatives - in his leader's address.
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