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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. Joe Biden

Faith, Innovation, Democracy, Creativity

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams

Democracy, Suicide, Remember, Long, More

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. - Michelangelo

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. Michelangelo

More, Grows, Statue, Marbles

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, God, Worry, Body, Nothing, Like

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. Joan Didion

People, California, Leaving, Everything

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. Wilfred Owen

Want, Ask, Above, Barren, Held

America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available. Joe Lonsdale

Time, Roads, Road, America, Tax, Traffic

I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions. Janet Reno

Money, Support, Child, Me, Song, She

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams

Democracy, Suicide, Remember, Long, Soon

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything. Eugene H. Peterson

Family, Education, God, Believe, Think

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn

Love, Lust, Reason, Enjoyment, Sense

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Samuel Johnson

Life, Man, Almost, Every Man, He, Which

Imagine if we can get information from sensors, compute it in the cloud, and find and plug water leakages - leakage wastes 20 per cent water in the world. Rajeev Suri

Water, World, Cloud, Information, Find

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid

Water, Body, Sloth, How, Thou, Unless

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence. Ahmed Zewail

Growth, Confidence, Corruption, Poor

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy. Antonio Conte

Football, Ideas, Comfort Zone, Moving

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. Gaylord Nelson

Environmental, Years, Planet, Exist, Far

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon. Haskell Wexler

Money, Believe, Energy, You, Balloon

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. Anna Garlin Spencer

Growth, Age, Ignorance, Human, Waste

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost. Orison Swett Marden

Freedom, Yourself, Energy, Down, You

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. Sylvia Earle

Life, Attitude, Sea, Ocean, End, Child

If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster. James Altucher

Time, Energy, Sick, Die, You, Things

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it. Sandra Bullock

Good, Women, Time, Competing, Just, Lot

In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy. Charles Koch

Business, People, Value, Economy, Real

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. David R. Brower

Future, Accept, Risk, Project, Now, Like

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. Wendy Kopp

Time, Child, Talent, Legal, Short, Need

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