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• Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Race, Special

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.78, Oxford University Press

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• Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Strong, Memories, Hands

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• Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

  Richard Hammond

  Italian, Car, Mexican

  "Despite Host Controversy, Amazon Takes A Chance On 'Top Gear'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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• Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

  Kwame Dawes

  Stars, Prayer, Writing

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• I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.

  Mario Cuomo

  Country, Strong, Military

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• An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Exercise, Soul, Selfishness

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• Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.

  Paul Samuelson

  Fans, Investing, Want

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• The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.

  Eugene Fama

  Taken, Thinking, Purpose

  "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.

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• The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Tests, Able

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• There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.

  Michael Jensen

  Investing, Literature, Facts

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• Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.

  Eugene Fama

  People, Decision, Risk

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• Perhaps the most important job of a financial advisor is to get their clients in the right place on the efficient frontier in their portfolios. But their No. 2 job, a very close second, is to create portfolios that their clients are comfortable with. Advisors can create the best portfolios in the world, but they won't really matter if the clients don't stay in them.

  Harry Markowitz

  Jobs, Important, Matter

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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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• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

  Seneca the Younger

  Endurance, Prowess, Shows

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• Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that's where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind's directives.

  H. E Davey

  Past, Meditation, Healthy

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• Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

  Faye J Crosby

  Mother, Women, Home

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Subsidies, Agribusiness

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• God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.

  Richelle Mead

  Might, Way, Mysterious

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.242, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Math, Years

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• Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Responsibility, Epidemics

  "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

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• What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Land, Water, Population

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• To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Degrees, Spaceships

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

  Angela Merkel

  Health, Past, Organization

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• Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

  Mario Cuomo

  Democracy, Fairs, Meant To Be

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