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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

~Adam Cohen

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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

~Adam Davidson

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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

~Adam Devine

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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.

~Adam Driver

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One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Bad Colleague Intentionally Pattern Persistent Relationships Reputation Signs Success Undermining

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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

~Adam Grant

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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

~Adam Grant

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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Bad Bad Things Bring Bunch Different Different People Good Good Things Happen Hire Likely Most Only People Promote Similar Tell Then Things Weird Who Will You I Can

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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

~Adam Mansbach

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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

~Adam Mckay

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