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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

Innovation, Citizen, Away

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

Monarchy, More, Lasts

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

Behind, Brought, Had

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

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

More, Marbles, Grows

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

Almost, Which, Attempting

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

How, Corrupted, Unless

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

Suicide, Commit, Lasts

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

Want, Ask, Held

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

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, Reason, Grows

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, Worry, Ashamed

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

Balloon, Costs, Before

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

Been, Atmosphere

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

Capital, Cut, Away

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

Confidence, Prime, Which

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use. Julian Lennon

Myself, Rather, Use

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

Been, Waste, Womanhood

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

Competing, Lot, Very

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

Cards, Abuse, Billions

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

Die, Waste, Then

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

Lunch, Think, Over

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

Asking, About, County

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

Habits, Own, Methods

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, More, Jobs

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. Barton Gellman

Medical, Feet, United

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

Understand, England, North

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