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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Being Business Compromise Discourage Enough Good Good Man Lawyer Litigation Man Neighbors Opportunity Peacemaker Persuade Still Superior Whenever Will You Your A Good Man

Keywords: Abandon


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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Acts Admiration Along Assert Authority Banning Before Behavior Behaviors Bossy Discourage Early Earn Engage Girl Labels Leadership Means Positive Receive Reinforcement Teaching Want

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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

~Alfred Adler

Topics: Blessing Could Creative Death Discourage Ever Great Humanity Lack Lived Only People Progress Real Really Stimulus Sufficient Themselves Who Without Would Young

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I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

~Allyson Schwartz

Topics: American Applaud Cancer Deadly Discourage Efforts Eradicate Habit Help Helped Local National Numerous People Provide Quit Resources Smokers Smoking Society State Taking Up Young Young People

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Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

~Amber Tamblyn

Topics: Actress Along Am Anyone Be Prepared Become Becoming Discourage Everything Face Honestly Prepared Trying Want You I Am

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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Achieved Benefit Competition Consumers Designed Discourage Encourage Even Focus Include Many Need Oppose Policies Progress Rather Shared Specifically Taxation Ways Which Workers

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There is nothing you can tell me to discourage me.

~Ann Coulter

Topics: Discourage Me Nothing Tell You

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The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

~Arne Duncan

Topics: After Anyone College Cost Degree Discourage Going Never Should Valuable

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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: After Born China Communist Communist Party Discourage Less Measures Party Policy Promised Severe Temporary Would Years

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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: About Books Could Directions Discourage Exciting Following Itself Kind Possible Reading Reveals Something Story Strips Taken Think Way Week Weekly Writer You I Think

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