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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, Creativity, Innovation, Talent

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, Long, Remember, More

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

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

More, Statue, Grows, Marbles

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, Enjoyment, Reason, Sense

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, Long, Remember, Soon

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

Life, Man, He, Part, Qualities, His

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, Child, End

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

Want, Ask, Above, Barren, Held

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Edmund Waller

Time, Rose, Sweet, Me, She, Go

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

God, Faith, Body, Worry, Nothing, Like

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

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, Leaving, Prize, Everything, Up

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

Water, Body, How, Sloth, Moves, Thou

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, Traffic, America, Tax

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. Chris Chocola

Government, Result, Cards, Credit, Abuse

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

Confidence, Growth, Corruption, Poor

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, You, Energy, Down

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, Sick, Die, You, Energy, Things

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

Good, Women, Time, Just, Very, Competing

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, Me, Support, Song, Child, She

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

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982. Mark E. Smith

Me, Internet, Fall, Understand, Fans, He

One of the most horrible wastes of capital you see is the duplication of the effort by the car manufacturers to do things that appear to be different from the other guy. Sergio Marchionne

Car, Effort, You, Be Different, See, Guy

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch. Anne Wojcicki

Good, Time, Lunch, Think, Ideas, Company

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money. Cory Gardner

Money, Government, Run, Find, More, Out

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, Talent, Child, Legal, Country

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