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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Trying, Too Much

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.12, Jaico Publishing House

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

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Home, Government, Lessons

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• 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.

  Rick Scott

  Mistake, Taken, Responsibility

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• 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.

  Charlie Crist

  Running, Government, Campaigns

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Want, States

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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

  Lamar S. Smith

  Energy, Needs, Source

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• 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.

  Meghan McCain

  Tattoo, Strong, Believe

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• 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.

  James Q. Wilson

  Powerful, Exercise, Agency

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

  Millard Fillmore

  Strong, Law, Protection

  Millard Fillmore (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Powerful, Communication, Music Is

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• 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.

  Seth Lloyd

  Sex, Moving, Dna

  "Move Aside, Sex". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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

  Donald Knuth

  Reality, Understanding, Use

  Donald E. Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms”, p.12, Addison-Wesley Professional

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

  Martin Van Buren

  People, Sober

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• 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.

  Bruce Nauman

  Mean, Feelings, Tasks

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

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• 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.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Believe, Order, Mexico

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Slavery, Ratios

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Use, Want, Way

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• We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our women and the home life made by them, which must be the root and ground of the whole matter. Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them 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, Home, Civilization

  "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters".

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• With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

  Greg Walden

  Oregon, Oil, Focus

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• The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

  Robert Musil

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins (1996). “The Man Without Qualities”, Vintage

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• The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

  Ronda Rousey

  Space, Opponents, Way

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• Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.

  Christian D. Larson

  Exercise, Giving, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.256, Penguin

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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