"Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much."

-- Alfie Kohn

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“It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?”
“[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.”
“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”
“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.”
“Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.”

Source : "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.
“States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.”
“I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.”
“When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary.”

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