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“... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”

“Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

“His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.”

People Kind Persons Doe Matter Science Perfect Brain Strange Independent Generous Efficient Biographies Private Life Amusing Bourgeois Lovable Most Lovable

Book:My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate

Source: My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate

“Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.”

Form Sound Activity Efficient Bicycle Transportation Recreation Riders Chelsea

Author:William J. Clinton

“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).”

Knows Should Firsts Happens Lasts Known Generations Resources Europe Decades Efficient Offspring Atheistic

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!”

Thinking Writing Ability One Day Investing Statistics Efficient Citizenship Statistician

Author:H. G. Wells

“The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.”

“It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.”

Looks Use One Thing Economic Resources Corruption Spread Despite Accomplished Empires Efficient Favoritism

Author:Iain Banks

“From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.”

States Government Numbers Cutting Car Contracts Efficient Smarter Reducing State Government

Author:Jim Doyle

“It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.”

Problem Would Be Lasts Political Results Watches Cases Politician Creating Solutions Direct Come Up Things To Do Fascinating Efficient Solution To A Problem

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Matter Law Social Justice Virtue Theory Truth Is Institutions Efficient Rejected Unjust Elegant Untrue Social Institutions

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.”

Energy Responsibility Practice Efficient Precedent Lawmakers

Author:Greg Walden

“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.”

Made Waiting Car Months Six Fuel Efficient Six Months Automobile

Author:Ed Markey

“Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.”

Home House Energy Stars Program Environmental Average Protection Agency Efficient Environmental Protection

Author:Melissa Bean

“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”

Way Has Beens Use Natural Our Lives Becoming Resources Assuming Environmental Improvement Efficient Becoming More Natural Resources

Author:Paul Hawken

“Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.”

Way Moments Form Simple Attention Fronts Tasks Pay Attention Productive That Moment Distraction Efficient Slow Down Energetic Simple Living Slowing New Relationship

Author:Michael Ray

“There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.”

Ifs Way Doe Simple Obligation Productive Progressive Efficient Simple Living Busier

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.”

“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”

Humans Has Beens War States Liberty Slavery Civil War Efficient Aggression Defence

Author:John C. Calhoun

“The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.”

Use Wealth Chance Company Profit Gambling Statistics Efficient Indication Insurance Companies

Book:The use of lateral thinking

Source: The use of lateral thinking

“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

Thinking Language Instruments Statistics Efficient Vehicle

Author:Humphry Davy

“Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.”

Way Energy Land Produce Efficient Corn Corny Protein Calories Fast Food Soybeans

Author:Michael Pollan

“Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.”

Trying Important Use Hands Easy Difficult Situation Steps Missing Critical Practicals Planes Spells Efficient Precise Reminders Difficult Situations Checklists

Book:The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.”

Humans Different Grows Goal Company Team Areas Efficient

Author:Carlos Slim

“I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.”

Men Humans Enough Efficient Efficiency Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.”

Trying Too Much Efficient

Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“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.”

Knows Enough Force Nations Goal Security Military Capable Iraq Efficient Sovereignty Security Forces

Author:John Abizaid

“The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.”

Firsts Home Government Lessons Efficient Civics

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.”

Persons Made Hard Mistake Responsibility Leader Accepting Taken Lessons Cost Focused Internals Hospitals Efficient Ceo Business Person Hard Lessons Mistakes Were Made

Author:Rick Scott

“I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.”

Way Want States Government Running Campaigns Efficient Bureaucracy State Government Government Bureaucracy

Author:Charlie Crist

“The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.”

Want States Efficient

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.”

Needs Energy Nations Source Efficient Energy Sources

Author:Lamar S. Smith

“I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And yes, I am a Republican.”

People Thinking Should Believe Government Strong I Believe Black Environment Rocks Republican Gay Concerned I Believe In Defense Efficient Punk Tattoo Punk Rock National Defense Gay Friend

Author:Meghan McCain

“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”

“The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.”

Law Strong Weak Protection Efficient Restraint

Book:State of the Union Addresses

Source: State of the Union Addresses

“Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.”

Powerful Communication Music Is Therapy Efficient

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.”

World Years Moving Lost Sex Roles Millions Information Method Wide Sand Efficient Dna Junk Dubious World Wide Web

Author:Seth Lloyd

“By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.”

Use Reality Language Understanding Machines Method Efficient Programmers

Book:The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms

Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms

“The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.”

People Efficient Sober

Author:Martin Van Buren

“But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.”

Ifs Way Mean Made Whole Feelings Findings Tasks Enjoyment Efficient Corrections

Author:Bruce Nauman

“It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.”

Animal Powerful Evolution Survival Most Powerful Martial Arts Mma Efficient Efficiency Surviving

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.”

Life Fighting Keys Evolution Wise Words Fighter Mma Efficient Accurate Efficiency

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“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.”

Theory Healthy Research Cancer Decades Agents Variety Cells Explanation Spite Chemicals Radiation Efficient Infection

Author:Paul Davies

“Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.”

World Believe Today Order Nations United Greater Planets Demand Dare Mexico Efficient Daring Representatives Participation United Nations Our Planet Transparent

Author:Enrique Pena Nieto

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

Cities Known Cases Technique Efficient Bombing Rent Control

Author:Assar Lindbeck

“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.”

Source: Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks

“I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.”

Knows World Use Would Be Able Style Events Efficient Adapted

Author:Dick Fosbury

“In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.”

Needs Years Wells Money Company Industry Couple Authority International Chinese Making Money Reports Efficient Participants Shareholders

Author:Daniel Yergin

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