Quotes with wasteful

  • The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Ben Bernanke Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Charles Darwin What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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