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Canalize   Listen
verb
canalize  v.  
1.
To provide with a canal, as of a city.
Synonyms: canal.
2.
To to direct the flow of; also used abstractly, as of money or information.
Synonyms: channel.





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"Canalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... and work situations we must take up in detail in separate chapters. What is important is that as life goes on, necessity, the social organization and gradual concentration of energy canalize the purposes, reduce the power of the irrelevant and temporary desires. Habit and custom bring a person into definite relationship with society; the man becomes husband, father, worker in some definite field of industry; ambition becomes narrowed ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... better. Give mankind but a generation or so of peace and right education and this world could mock at the poor imaginations that conceived a millennium. But we have to get intelligences together, we have to canalize thought before it can work and produce its due effects. To that end, I suppose, there has been a vast amount of mental activity among us political "negligibles." For my own part I have thought of ...
— In The Fourth Year - Anticipations of a World Peace (1918) • H.G. Wells


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