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• Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, People, Feel Good

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• Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Ambition, Achievement

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• It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Cost, Way

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• The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

  Marion Nestle

  Labels, Fats, Enormous

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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• As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community.

  Dawna Markova

  Children, Compassion, Community

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• We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.

  John Kasich

  People, Gains, Terrible

  "Melissa Harris-Perry", www.msnbc.com. January 10, 2016.

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• Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

  Pierre Berton

  Son, Men, People

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• If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

  Tom Rath

  Long, Decision, Moments

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Names, Free Education, Numbers

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• The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.

  William Beveridge

  Encouragement, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "The Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. November 1942.

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• I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

  Dick Cheney

  Encouragement, Jobs, Thinking

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• The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several factors ignited the fire. For projects coming on line in 2005, record-low interest rates during the design phase 12 to 18 months prior provided additional incentive for development and absorption.

  Brian Gordon

  Real, Fire, Design

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• Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Should

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• A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, Thinking, Goal

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• We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Gone, Spirit, Plateaus

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Order, Desire

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• The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

  Gloria Steinem

  Air, Rivers, Water

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.421, Open Road Media

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• Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

  Johan Norberg

  People, Liberty, Prosperity

  Johan Norberg (2005). “In Defence of Global Capitalism”, p.71, Academic Foundation

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• Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Wind, Independence

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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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• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Clever, Miracle, Mixtures

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Military, Government

  "The Silent Co-Conspirators In Military Mass Shootings". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. September 22, 2013.

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