Inefficient Quotes
94 quotes by 87 authors
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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
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
— Henry George
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
— Nick Harkaway
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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
Who Wrote These Inefficient Quotes
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