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• I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is admirable. Yeah, there was an added incentive. I wouldn't call it pressure, but incentive perhaps.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: screenrant.com

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• What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Looks, Resistance, Process

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".

  Allen W. Wood

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

  Arnold Palmer

  Winning, Play, Careers

  "An Interview with the king of golf before the 38th Arnold Palmer Invitational". Golf Content Network Interview, golfcontentnetwork.com. March 16, 2016.

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• When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.

  Manmohan Singh

  Way, Firsts, Income

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• In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

  Ilana Mercer

  Forever, Training, Results

  "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013.

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• The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean.

  Jason Brennan

  Mean, Differences, Voting

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Years, Hands

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

  Richard Branson

  Fighting, Want, Making Money

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.

  Jim Stanford

  Cutting, Giving, People

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• The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

  John Stott

  Christian, Pain, Exercise

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.289, InterVarsity Press

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• Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Lonely, Loneliness

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.48, Harmony

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• As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Race, People, Mind

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Doe, Want

  "Wikipedia and Beyond". Interview with Katherine Mangu-Ward, reason.com. June 2007.

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• Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Giving, Heaven, Genius

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• Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

  Steven Landsburg

  People, Four, Economics

  Steven E. Landsburg (2012). “The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.

  Paul Polman

  Real, Race, Government

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• People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as they would without the benefit.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Philosophy, People

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• Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Principles, Months, Human Nature

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• Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

  Bruno Frey

  Today, Pressure, Economics

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• So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Powerful, Grateful, Perfect

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• If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

  Joshua Schachter

  Order, People, Needs

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• Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

  Emily Oster

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  "Who's Who in America". Book by Dean Alfange, vol. 1, p. 42, 1984 - 85.

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• Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Abolition Of Slavery, Southern

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