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• In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

  George Orwell

  Energy, Tests, Get Money

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Fear, Men, Air

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• Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Inspiration, Mean

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• Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

  George Gilder

  School, Successful, Opposites

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• The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.

  David Boaz

  Art, Real, Responsibility

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• We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Eye, People

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• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Ambition, Understanding

  "Education and the Significance of Life".

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• Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Connections, Information

  "Small Change". www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

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• Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Civilization, Technique

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• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

  Don Roff

  Procrastination, Panic, Procrastinating

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• The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Justice, Political, Liberty

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

  Elihu Root

  Discipline, May, Worst

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• While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

  Drew Ginn

  Important, Gone, Rowing

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• Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

  Peter W. Huber

  Impact, Hands, Opposites

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• Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

  James Ling

  Motivational, Encouragement, Hard Work

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• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Business, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Joy, Culture

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• I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

  Plato

  Fasting, Greater

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Effort, Hours, My Time

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• Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

  Marie Lu

  Knives, Throat, Slits

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

  Robert Fulghum

  Quality, Speed, Increase

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.78, Ballantine Books

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