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Quotes About Discourage

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.
~ George Pelecanos
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.
~ Murray Rothbard
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
~ Emily Dickinson
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
~ Lawrence Summers
When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
~ Allyson Schwartz
If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.
~ Scott Garrett
Rathbun's strategy followed Hubbard's dictate that the purpose of a lawsuit is "to harass and discourage rather than win.
~ Lawrence Wright
The way we speak and the words we use have great power to discourage or to inspire.
~ Linda Kavelin Popov
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.
~ Juliet Mills
those words dampen our spirits
~ Ann Parker
While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent made him happy
~ Anne Bishop
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
~ Barbara Demick
The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.
~ Johnny Hunt
I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.
~ Les Claypool
If you notice your puppy chewing furniture or wires, use a distasteful bitter-apple spray to discourage their curiosity
~ Sarah Hodgson
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
~ Russell Means
What is at stake here is the control of public space and the power to depict, to discourage and intimidate, and ultimately to filter what is happening and being expressed at a time when technology makes filtering relatively easy.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
~ Bill Dedman
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
~ Daniel Mallory Ortberg
socialist programs that discourage hard work and favor reliance on the government.
~ Ben Shapiro
The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.
~ Phil Gramm
Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage—trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.
~ Billy Graham
Indiscriminate ideological suspicion of any idea, without the urge to exalt an idea of one's own, will discourage rather than promote lucidity.
~ bloch ernst ii