We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this… — Claudia Llosa Copy Share Image
Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast,… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex,… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial.… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Do you want to influence the behaviour of people or organisations? You could always preach about values and visions, or you could… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive.… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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