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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster
Reward
Encouragement
Punishment
System
Seem
More
Preventive
Attainment
Tickets
Boy
Reverse
Proves
Affected
Loss
Than
Often
Being
Them
Coercion
Serviceable
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Wisdom
Run
Seem
Results
Counter
Economists
Like
Often
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Theorems
Startling
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Josh Billings
Man
Money
Reputation
Outlast
His
Often
Often, when I leave the house, I dress for comfort. On my better days, I shoot for 'matching.'
Josh Gondelman
Better
Dress
Days
House
Comfort
Matching
Leave
Shoot
Often
Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.
Josh Gondelman
Me
Summer
Summer Camp
Way
Backpack
Wear
Given
Gives
Undercover
Days
Most
Operation
Sting
Camp
Shirt
Often
Cap
Shorts
Appearance
Baseball
Cop
Facts are often complicated.
Josh Hawley
Complicated
Facts
Often
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
Josh Radnor
Kindness
Time
Appreciates
About
Steadily
More
Instant
Instant Gratification
Investment
Over
Often
Gratification
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.
Joshua Foer
Today
Quality
Culture
Book
Value
Focus
Rare
Reading
Books
Once
Broader
No Choice
Only
Exceptions
Over
Read
Quantity
Without
Up
Often
Want
Sustained
Choice
Each
Keep
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
Joshua Foer
Memory
Confused
Mind
Before
Few
Eye
Bizarre
Photographic
Rarely
Minutes
Vivid
Percent
Perceptual
Adult
Fading
Between
Another
Real
Occurs
Lingers
Up
Very
Often
Essentially
Children
In-Between
Which
Away
Image
Phenomenon
With 'Scandal,' I was there from the beginning. I got to experience the transformation from its initial slow start to the water-cooler hit it became. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ride, and am deeply grateful for it. I can't believe how often people stop me on the street to talk about it.
Joshua Malina
Me
Grateful
Experience
People
Ride
Slow
Beginning
Transformation
Believe
Thoroughly
Scandal
About
Talk
Became
Got
How
Am
Hit
Often
Stop
Initial
Street
Deeply
Enjoyed
Start
There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
Joshua Michael Stern
Day
You
People
World
Wake Up
Will
Believe
Says
One Day
Jobs
Bound
Smarter
Judges
Wake
Up
Than
Often
Where
Want
Realize
Created
Moment
The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
Me
Matter
Brilliant
Made
Party
Resonance
Emotional
Most
Cry
Rocket
Ultimately
Five
Lack
Often
Show
Suffered
Things
Two
I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.
Joss Whedon
Ego
Enough
Recognized
Bouncing
Along
Go
Get
Often
Just
Places
Much
Keep
There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.
Joss Whedon
People
Films
Possible
TV
Find
TV Shows
Make
Reactions
Normal
Very
Often
Situations
Where
Themselves
Many
Shows
I think, so often, people go quick to that nepotism: 'I should be OK; my cousin's a producer. I can get into the movie.' How about audition, earn the part, and feel confident in knowing that the director felt you were the right person for the job versus hiring you because you know somebody?
Jovan Adepo
You
Director
People
Right Person
Job
Somebody
Think
Earn
OK
Nepotism
About
Part
Feel
Know
Knowing
Because
Felt
How
Audition
Cousin
Go
Were
Hiring
Versus
Quick
Person
Get
Confident
Often
Movie
Producer
Should
Right
If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.
Joy Reid
You
Woman
Sometimes
Black
Submit
Liberal
Immigrant
Object
Feared
Brown
Democrat
Unwilling
Were
Ultimate
Scorn
Mockery
Quietly
Often
Subtle
Then
Villain
Thing
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'
Joyce Carol Oates
Love
You
Be Happy
Happy
People
Say
Something
Students
Wrong
Supposed
Liked
Well
Read
Often
Love You
Want
Story
Them
Really
Convince
Your
Hard
Teaching
Who
Professor
Things
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
Joyce Carol Oates
Culture
Sometimes
Community
Something
House
Sort
Gothic
Often
Estate
Large
Whole
Novels
Symbolic
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
Education
Hope
Writing
Witness
Opportunity
Too Much
Own
Personal Life
Too
Others
Way
Tell
Bearing
Affected
Personal
Lack
Often
Stories
Much
Who
I don't collab often.
Joyner Lucas
Often
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
Juan Cole
Seriously
Think
Right-Wing
Recommendations
Wing
Tendency
Studies
Taken
Nevertheless
Policy
Tanks
Been
Very
Dominate
Shoddy
Discussions
Often
Unfortunate
Which
Produce
Right
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
Judith Martin
News
Girl
Example
First
White
White House
Section
Out
Rather
For Example
House
Although
Got
Coverage
Began
Often
Social
Copy
Career
Startling
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.
Judith Wright
Creative
Heart
Hurt
Ghost
Out
TV
Some
Sort
Empty
Felt
Were
Existing
Often
Hollow
Barely
Engaged
Activities
Deeply
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.
Judy Biggert
Science
Nation
Research
Way
System
Physical
Physical Sciences
Facilities
Primary
Supporter
Sciences
Scientific
Led
Discovery
Office
Often
Creating
Unique
Specialized
Large-Scale
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.
Judy Collins
Me
Writing
Sorry
Addicted
Prose
Terribly
Because
Am
Lot
Often
Stop
Anything
Heck
Hard
Fun
Ever
Alas
Started
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland
Love
Silence
Man
People
Words
Few
Thousands
Thousands Of People
One-Man
Rather
Wished
Than
Often
Just
Applause
Night
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