A Quote by Bill Shorten

Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity.

Bill Shorten

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Opportunity People Poverty

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Bill Shorten
Australian - Politician
Born: May 12, 1967

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.

Paul Craig Roberts

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

Charlie Papazian

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Garrett Hardin

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

George S. Clason

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Richard Lugar

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Annie Besant

Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.

David Brin

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me; I will not, cannot go.

Emily Bronte

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Lawrence Lessig

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