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“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.”

Ifs Men Matter Government Truth Honest Honesty Capacity Absolutes Endure Credit Brilliant Voting Republic Efficient Public Life Prerequisites

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.”

Ifs Bigs Running Speak Nations Highest Training Sticks Doctrine Patriotic Efficient Navy Adages Homely Speak Softly Monroe Doctrine

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.”

Humans Beautiful Beauty Havens Design Creation Garden Kingdoms Contemporary Proportion Invites Architect Transformed Efficient Partnership Majesty Aggressiveness Contemporary Life

Author:Luis Barragan

“What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.”

Technology Internet Property Efficient Distribution Stolen

Author:Steve Jobs

“There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.”

Ifs Certain Loss Teacher Amount Miles Enlightened Efficient Cables Miles Away Transmission Generator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Source: The road ahead

“I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.”

Ifs Wells May I Can Form Poor Stupid Slavery Slave Voting Efficient Marxism Fashionable No Hope

Book:A Taste for Death

Source: A Taste for Death

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”

Inspirational Religion Term Morning Doubt Atheism Resources Atheist Sunday Time Management Efficient Efficiency Agnostic Agnosticism Sunday Morning Against Religion Allocation Anti God

Book:Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

Source: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”

Leader Managers Something New Efficient Status Quo

Author:Orrin Woodward

“The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.”

Ifs Get Better Right Thing Efficient Efficiency Wrong Things

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.”

Ideas Bigs Happens Found Interesting Intelligent Efficient Commerce Most Interesting Replacements Stripes Offline Behemoth

Author:Patrick Collison

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

People Ifs Mean Might Company Millions Products Cost Dollars Profit Efficient Incentives Million Dollars Illiterate

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.”

Becoming Method Clean Productions Diets Efficient Diverse Biodiversity Becoming Better

Author:Louise Fresco

“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.”

“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.”

“Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .”

Should Purpose Courses Causes Divine Mathematics Following Deny Explanation Efficient Investigation Hostile Despised Divine Purpose Undervalued

Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.”

Needs Should Wells Doe Has Beens Spirit Natural Forget Treats Claims Screens Practicals Staring Lunch Sensible Efficient Rulers Desks Stolen Chained Cosy Loafers

Book:How to be Idle

Source: How to be Idle

“The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.”

Knows Way Humans Race Rate Cease Ice Human Race Barriers Efficient Sober Surroundings Handy Chaps Dissolving

Book:Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Source: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.”

Simple Fields Administration Efficient Minimum Minimum Wage Playing Fields

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.”

Thinking Trying Helping Given Process Pressure Sticks Efficient Parameters Time And Money

Author:Christopher Nolan

“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.”

People World Should Looks Country Sometimes Democracy Rights Sacrifice West China Tendencies Efficient Criticise Short Sighted Authoritarian Government

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.”

People Thinking School Culture Economy Students Increase Debt Technique Consumers Acquire Graduates Efficient Traps Components Unlikely Loaded Fees Time To Think Tuition

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.”

Mind Two Facts Problem Turns Cases Information Example Theory Fundamentals Analysis Related Engines Efficient Engineering Engineers Thermodynamics Shannon

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.”

Whole Spirit Independence British Cruelty Persistence Unconscious Apathy Efficient Manly Calculating Prototype Anglo Saxon Colonists Robinson Crusoe

Author:James Joyce

“The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.”

Government Democracy Ignorance Constitution Gentleman Folly Efficient Urban Suspicious Turbulence Unruly

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”

Wells Enough Culture Sin Poor Rich Tradition Difficulty Crisis Accepted Efficient Leisure Virtuous Efficiency Compulsion Carrying On

Author:Clement Greenberg

“I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?”

Trying Children Law Community Hurt Conflict Solutions Soldier International Handle Efficient Dictator International Community International Law Aggressors Child Soldier

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.”

Knows Men Should Humans Causes Natural Existence Air Pure Disease Advantage Breathe Atmosphere Enjoyment Efficient Desirable Adopted Disadvantages Human Existence Natural Life

Author:Robert Owen

“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”

Men Wells Century Regard Nuclear Physics Heat Rays Engines Efficient Cents Twentieth Century Convenient Nineteenth Century Clockwork Thermodynamics Neutrons Gamma Rays

Book:V.

Source: V.

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”

Mean Play Body Joy Winning Individual Sports Knowing Pieces Discipline Training Train Various Efficient Harsh Relaxation Compulsion

Author:Jacques Ellul

“The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.”

Cutting Regard Data Analysis Efficient Unfortunate Thorough Short Cuts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.”

Matter Hours Novel Five Four My Family Notes Marketing Scripts Spending My Time Efficient Spending Time Scheduling

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.”

Ifs Two Secret Too Much Car Example Europe Oil Guides Fuel Expensive Efficient Coping

Author:Paul Krugman

“It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.”

Important Class Middle Materials Products Higher Demand Resources Servant Middle Class Efficient Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Malthus

“Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.”

Virtue Vices Efficient Militant

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.”

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.”

Real Wise Blessed Clean Kingdoms California Abstract Afterlife Efficient Estates Unseen

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

Self Interest Ability Absolutes Mathematics Following Insight Complicated Brilliant Self Confidence Supreme Reasoning Broads Efficient Mathematician Virtuosity Von Neumann

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.”

Littles Different Use Today Desire Pay Attention Tasks Productive Motivated Efficient Efficiency Cognitive Processing Multi Tasking

Author:Linda Stone

“Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.”

Want Should Different Easy Quality Our Lives Generations Share Information Discipline Cooking Available Cooks Kitchen Efficient Advancement Future Generation Cuisine

Author:Ferran Adria

“Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.”

Giving Position Technique Favors Factors Clarity Logical Ballet Aesthetic Efficient Routes

Book:Ballet Beyond Tradition

Source: Ballet Beyond Tradition

“Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.”

Needs Financial Efficient Financial Markets

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Mean Hands Values Economic Products Mass Labor Productions Mechanism Efficient Ownership Harvest Withholding Economic Value Web 2.0

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.”

Firsts May Matter Social Security Horror Including Profit Efficient Social Security Coverage Recoil

Author:Andrew Tobias

“Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.”

Ifs Men Women Family Rights Highest Missions Spheres Efficient Thrones Wronged Precious Gifts

Book:Woman's Rights

Source: Woman's Rights

“Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, we need to give ourselves, our business, our interests, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, efficient, fruitful.”

Needs Giving Hands Spirit Interest Fashion Divine Affection Currents Our Family Efficient Divine Will

Book:Sermons for the People

Source: Sermons for the People

“Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!”

World Way Trying Play Problem Solve Efficient Gardening New Ways Good Will Violin Gloves World Problems

Author:Philippe Kahn

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