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«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.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
frustration, immediate, leaking, leaks, leak out, mangle, mangled, torment, vital force, wasteful
«If I could tell the world just one thing it would be we're all okay, and not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. I won't be made useless, wont be idle with despair, I will gather myself around my faith, lights the darkness most fear.»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
despair, gather, idle, Just One, lights, okay, Telling the World, Tell the World, the darkness, useless, wasteful, wont
«Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.»
«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.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
enable, hereafter, poor man, returns, squandered, squandering, squanders, urgent, utilize, utilized, utilizing, wasteful
«What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
blundering, chaplain, clumsy, horribly, wasteful, write on
«How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.»
«All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful»
«Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
American values, burdened, bureaucratic, embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, era, family values, neighborhood, New Era, oppressed, reorder, responsive, restore, revitalize, revitalized, Social reform, stifled, uncaring, unresponsive, wasteful
«If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Grace
| Keywords:
submit, wasteful
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