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• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Home, Air, People

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

  James Dyson

  Electric Motors, Quantum, Leap

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Demand

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• Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  Deborah Bull

  Fitness, Weight, Body

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Publicity

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mean, Self, Aquariums

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Mean, Technology

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Want, Personal Life

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• We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

  George Papandreou

  Cutting, States, Regions

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• My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

  Lucas Papademos

  Jobs, Unity, Way

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• Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

  Mehmet Oz

  Sacred, Becoming, Changed

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Barack Obama

  Creativity, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Loyal, May, Fruit

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

  Janet Napolitano

  Travel, Air, People

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• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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• The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

  Wilson Mizner

  Water, Tears, World

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• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Golda Meir

  Military, Thank God, Thrive

  Vogue, July 1969.

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• I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Fearless

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

  Curtis LeMay

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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