"If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter."

-- Alfie Kohn

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“First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so as thus to discern the particular laws governing a certain class of phenomena. In general, it is not until after these particular laws have been established that one can expect to discover and articulate the more general laws that complete theories by bringing a multitude of apparently very diverse phenomena together under a single governing principle.”
“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”

Source : 1871 The Theory of Political Economy
“There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.”
“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”
“People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.24, Gallic Books
“Bad literature is a form of treason.”
“It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.”
“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

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