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• This maxim is a wise guide to a great and simple precaution in life: Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives... One of the most important consequences of incentive superpower is what I call "incentive caused bias."
• What a difference when a maxim is to be applied to our own case, and when to that of others! —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
• The author of the maxim was a man famous throughout the civilized world,—a man of transcendent talents, who fixed, more, perhaps, than any other man of the same century, his impress on the age in which he lived, and upon the laws of England,—I mean Lord Mansfield. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, by Josiah Quincy
• What's so amusing about this maxim is the myriad ways in which the very significance of its message can be expressed. —  Daily Vanguard RSS
• This maxim is as foreign to American ears as the concept of a forever war. —  Taipei Times

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