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• ... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

  Jack Kemp

  Wisdom, Jobs, Giving

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• ... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

  Margaret Deland

  Godly, Soul, Wicked

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• Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'

  Samir Selmanovic

  Jesus, Giving Up, Use

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• We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.

  Patri Friedman

  Ideas, Suffering, World

  "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.

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• The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

  Paul Watson

  Tragedy, Ecology, Preserves

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Excellence, Financial

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• When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Development, Talent

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  Haniel Long

  Desert, May, Pages

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

  Bill Gates

  Zero, Business, Fall

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.

  Robert Dessaix

  Writing, Offering, Unfortunate Things

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

  Dave Ulrich

  Running, Research, World

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people not just to look forward to having more abortions but being able to sell that fetal tissue for purposes - these centers - for purposes of making a profit off of it, as you've seen in some of these Planned Parenthood affiliates.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, People, Abortion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.

  Jerry Jasinowski

  Way, Bonus, Growing

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• This weapon [the atomic bomb] has added an additional responsibility - or, better, an additional incentive - to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.

  Leslie Groves

  War, Responsibility, Science

  "Gen. Groves Warns on Atom 'Suicide'". Opening address of Town Hall's annual lecture series (November 7, 1945) in "The New York Times", November 8, 1945.

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• When we talk about the UN, what are we really talking about? We are talking about my country, your country, other countries and their collective will to stand together and apply pressure or offer incentives to steer things in the right direction. When the nations of the world come together, with collective will, on an issue and they speak with a united voice, they have a much greater impact. When there is division, then the impact is much, much less.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Voice, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, People, Unemployment

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• The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Punishment, Effort

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

  Ben Bernanke

  Safety, Use, Derivatives

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Goverrnors of the Federal Reserve". U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.  Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, School, People

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• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

  Eric Hobsbawm

  War, October Revolution, Reform

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• Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

  Bill Gates

  Business, People, Needs

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.

  Tim Yeo

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Britain trails China in dash to low-carbon economy, warns Tim Yeo" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2010.

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• When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?

  Bill Skarsgard

  Character, Done, Scripts

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• The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.

  Ed Rollins

  Country, Groups, Reform

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Motivation, Desire, Rewards

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.355, Coventry House Publishing

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