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• An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained; and, with those whose peculiarities he has had no opportunity of learning, he should politely inquire how they wish their beverages served, and use his best judgment in endeavoring to fulfill their desires to their entire satisfaction. In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success.

  Jerry Thomas

  Success, Opportunity, Alcohol

  Jerry Thomas (2016). “Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

  Assar Lindbeck

  Cities, Technique, Rent Control

  "Rent Control, Myths & Realities: International Evidence of the Effects of Rent Control in Six Countries (The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control)". Book edited by Milton Friedman,‎ Walter Block, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Basil Kalymon and‎ Edgar O. Olsen, 1981.

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• And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Perspective, Ignorant

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.

  Frances Beinecke

  Fighting, Wind, Voice

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• In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Strong, Engineering

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.

  Elliott Colla

  Beautiful, Couple, Broken

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States. But what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient. So there were no silver bullets there.

  Michael Leiter

  Thinking, Data Collection, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

  Joss Whedon

  Movie, Thinking, Decision

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

  Michael Moore

  Dad, Creating, Numbers

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• It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Yield, Energy

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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• Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

  Janet Napolitano

  Travel, Air, People

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• Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Loyal, May, Fruit

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Barack Obama

  Creativity, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Demand

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• Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Robert Burton

  Inspirational, Confidence, Ambition

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• The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

  Wilson Mizner

  Water, Tears, World

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• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Golda Meir

  Military, Thank God, Thrive

  Vogue, July 1969.

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

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• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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