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I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
Nick Saban / Football Coach
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I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Romano Prodi / Italian Politician
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The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
Alan Patricof / Investor
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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
Rick Perry / Governor Of Texas
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Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended.
Zoe Quinn /
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese / Actor
Erratic
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Powerful
Treated
Praised
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
Teju Cole / Writer
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
Mary Beard / Professor
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin / Author
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It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
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If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.
Luis Gutierrez / U.s. Representative
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Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Kenneth Blackwell /
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President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
Harold Hamm / Entrepreneur
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Crude Oil
Foreign Oil
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Release
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Trash
Trump
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One of the first bills I introduced in Congress was the Be Open Act, legislation to help ease an unnecessary, duplicative and punitive burden placed on employees and employers under the Affordable Care Act.
Elise Stefanik /
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
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Congress
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The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.
Howard Gardner / Psychologist
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I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins / Writer
Capitol
Catching
Disturbing
Entertainment
Marketing
Forms
Campaign
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Simultaneously
Thrilled
Tim
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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
Jay Samit /
Genesis
Innovation
Trial And Error
Attitudes
Centers
Error
Fails
Greatest Challenge
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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
Arthur C. Brooks / Economic Consultant
Equality
Running
Bigger
Corporations
Entrepreneur
Harder
Income
Labor
Rewards
Sake
Unions
Attaining
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The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.
Marc Veasey / United States Representative
American Citizens
Barriers
Citizens
Court
Low Income
Minorities
Preventing
Ruling
Subjection
Supreme
Supreme Court
Unfair
Voting
Basic
Exercising
Feared
Motion
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As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
Mike Huckabee / Former Governor Of Arkansas
Arkansas
Harsh
Legislation
Pro Life
Existing
Good Thing
Governor
None
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Virtually
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Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
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Officials
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Sunken-place entrants include Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Tiger Woods, O.J. Simpson, sometimes Kanye West, and any black person with something nice to say about President Trump. It's more generous than 'sellout' and less punitive than 'Uncle Tom,' a dis and a road to redemption.
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Generous
Redemption
Woods
Ben
Include
President Trump
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Sellout
Simpson
Thomas
Tiger
Tiger Woods
Tom
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner / Psychologist
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Committed
Deprivation
Feeding
Hungry
Offers
Used
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Longer
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