Death is something we're often discouraged to talk about or even think about: Don't go there.

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For many years, we had a welfare system that too often discouraged people from taking responsibility for their own upward mobility.

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Though women have made great strides in the corporate world in the last three decades, women from all income classes are still too often discouraged by family members from having careers that infringe too much on family life.

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Many consider this figure a more accurate representation of the dire employment scenario in America today, as people spend more time unemployed and often become discouraged from actively seeking a job.

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Do too much, as most overzealous new trainers try, and you not only prevent these changes from happening but often become discouraged and wind up giving up on a fitness program long before it ever had a chance of working!

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And very often stressed and discouraged.

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Introducing species from one region of the world into another region has more often ended in tears of sorrow than joy, which is why it is discouraged in guidelines issued by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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Hotly contested because of the perceived hypocrisy that coaches (as well as athletic administrators) have often jumped ship and broken contracts for greener pastures and career-enhancing moves while student-athletes are discouraged to do the same.

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