The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
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We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
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As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field
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It doesn�t matter what I think of the call, ... You can�t put yourself in that position (to be penalized).
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