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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Goal

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

  Lucas Papademos

  Jobs, Unity, Way

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• Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

  Bill Vaughan

  Anger, Animal, Men

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• We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

  George Papandreou

  Cutting, States, Regions

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Publicity

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Want, Personal Life

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• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  Deborah Bull

  Fitness, Weight, Body

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mean, Self, Aquariums

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Anxiety, Done, Panic Attacks

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• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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• we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  People, May, Disease

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• As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Impact, Land, Goal

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Pay, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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• ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Government, Community, Alternatives

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.

  Robert Haugen

  Sea, People, Mountain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 1, Introduction, p. 2, 1999.

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• Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.

  Nicholas Stern

  Country, Growth, Progress

  "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict". www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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• Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Giving, Imagination

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau”

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• Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Hands, America

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.

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• During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

  Antonis Samaras

  Order, Government, Needs

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

  George Ayittey

  Evil, Genius, Able

  George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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