#ms

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

#agencies #billions #bureaucracy #cards #credit

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#before #dreams #knows #only #play

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers. ↗

— James Coco

#else #everybody #everybody else #forgets #himself

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#except #good #great #happy #inward

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#friends #himself #lazy #out #person

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. ↗

— Usher

#achieve #believe #dreamers

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ↗

— Charles Cotton

#below #blessings #go #i #like