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The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
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As I spend time with parents and business owners, retirees and millennials, Republicans and Democrats back home in Minnesota, one thing is… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water… — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
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When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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