Inefficient Quotes

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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is… — Annie Besant
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. — Corrie Ten Boom
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when… — Edward de Bono
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap… — Kurt Cobain
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency… — Charles Koch
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know… — Richard Viguerie
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government… — Christy Clark
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations… — Bruce Barton
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming,… — John Ralston Saul
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On… — Charles Koch
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. — Henry George
It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told… — Mike Thompson
Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any… — Amory Lovins
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices… — Joel Stein
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough… — Bernard DeVoto
Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient cookstoves. Together with… — Nancy Sutley
Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. — Nick Harkaway
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the… — William Tecumseh Sherman

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