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"The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits."
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"One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem."

"There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. Regardless of how busy one is, one's success can only come from relentless productivity."

"The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through."

"Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success."

"If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year."

"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."

"For you to maximize time, you want to make sure that every second of the day that comes is converted into some products."

"To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts."

"Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP."

"Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly."
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"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour."

"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East."

"Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect."

"Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers."

"Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals."

"Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities."

"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."

"If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions."

"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy."
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