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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Want, Way, Rich

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.190, Penguin

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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Aldous Huxley

Powerful, Army, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Tom Robbins

Beautiful, Sacrifice, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Nihilism, Quality

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.326, Vintage

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religious, Government, Organization

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

W. Somerset Maugham

Funny, Reflection, People

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Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

Tom Holt

Girl, Heartbroken, Lost

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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Robert A. Heinlein

Grief, Fall, People

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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Gregory Maguire

Doubt, Energy, Conviction

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.232, Hachette UK

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All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Upton Sinclair

Country, Men, Two

Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

Dick Fosbury

Style, Events, Would Be

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Multi-Choice question: My dishwasher is: efficient; hilarious.

Demetri Martin

Choices, Dishwashers

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Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.

Pier Giorgio Frassati

Prayer, Mean, Grace

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Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Leonard Nimoy

Wish, Computer, Mr Spock

"Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1968.

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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.

William Blaikie

Men, Special, Saving

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A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

Robert D. Putnam

Communication, Amplify, Information

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In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

Daniel Yergin

Money, Couple, Years

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...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

Ron Paul

Government, Authority, Evidence

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In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

Assar Lindbeck

Cities, Technique, Rent Control

"Rent Control, Myths & Realities: International Evidence of the Effects of Rent Control in Six Countries (The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control)". Book edited by Milton Friedman,‎ Walter Block, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Basil Kalymon and‎ Edgar O. Olsen, 1981.

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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Bill Gates

Moving, Flying Cars, Way

"Q&A: Bill Gates On Flying Cars, The Malaria Epidemic, And Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life.

Lindsay Arnold

School, Dancing, Busy

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High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs.

Bernie Sanders

Country, Jobs, Fall

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We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.

Ronald Fisher

Men, Quality, Different

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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Community, Doe

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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An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained; and, with those whose peculiarities he has had no opportunity of learning, he should politely inquire how they wish their beverages served, and use his best judgment in endeavoring to fulfill their desires to their entire satisfaction. In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success.

Jerry Thomas

Success, Opportunity, Alcohol

Jerry Thomas (2016). “Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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