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Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.


James Mirrlees

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JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces...
WILLIAM JAMES The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time an...
WILLIAM JAMES On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb...
JAMES BEATTIE Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES