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Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Been Citizenship Crime Criminal Diminish Encouraged Great Hand How Hundred Hundred Years Last Order Other Perplexed Questions Reduce Reform Respecting Restore Shall Society Two Useful Years

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Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Apparently Before Brain Capacity Early Encouraged Even Exploiting Internet Less Like Made Manipulation More Most Our Simultaneously Than Thought Users Vulnerable Way While

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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

~Ed Begley, Jr.

Topics: Also Become Being Boy Boy Scout Cub Encouraged Father Found He Later Liked Love Me Nature Outdoors Really Scout Urged

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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: Boring Cities Come Day Daydreamer Deal Directors Doorstep Encouraged Escapist Every Every Day Great Great Deal Growing Growing Up Happened Imaginative Interested Kid Maybe Me More Naturalism Pretty Realism See Things Town Up Very Where Who

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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Black Care Encouraged Father Friends He Her Home Ill Later Liked Married Match Me Mother Never Opened Really She Were Write Writer Years I Write 1950S

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In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

~Edward Felten

Topics: About Between Collision Copyright Creativity Decisions Designed Discouraged Encouraged End Happening Important Ip Making Making Decisions Mind Other Policy Protecting Should Technologies Up Whether You

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If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Course Drop Encouraged Female Get He Her Later Life Male Need Physics Questions Since Stay Student Tries Wants Will

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All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Apply Being Boy Date Encouraged Feel Girl Make Popular Pressures Sciences Smart Societal Them Too Will

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I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in.

~Elana Meyers

Topics: Always Encouraged Participate Sports Wanted Whatever

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As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.

~Elise Stefanik

Topics: Box Candidate Encouraged How Important Know Myself Outside Run Think Woman

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