They also know that sloth may be a sin but, if practiced wisely, is also a virtue.
There are two economic decisions going on: work versus sloth, and saving versus spending.
That unlucky sloth would not be touched, let alone prodded or poked to death.
Redistributions of wealth reward those susceptible to laziness and sloth, but consumption without production shrinks the pie.
This story needs context and facts, not more fuzzy charges of U.S. sloth and supposed government rescues.
After eight years of sloth and corruption under the Socialists, Hungary's economy is in a parlous state.
Belying Europe's image of economic sloth, their economies grew by an average of over 5% last year.
To make matters worse, growth of Merck's blockbuster anti-arthritis drug Vioxx has slowed to a sloth's pace.
We are a selfish species prone to temptations which trigger both activity (greed, pride) and inactivity (sloth, jealousy).
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They highlight the government's sloth in honouring its election promises to reform Poland's clogged and clunky public administration.
True, you want to encourage work and saving, while discouraging sloth and spending.
The less fortunate are bolstered better by private philanthropy, which is less prone to enable or encourage irresponsibility and sloth.
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Certainly, state interventions that punish industry and frugality and reward sloth and profligacy cannot but facilitate the propagation of misery.
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After all, who knows what evil (or sloth or honest but stupid mistakes) lurks in the hearts of men (and women)?
Is there something to learn from the persistence of a sloth in making slow, steady progress, rather than jumping at short-term opportunities?
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Eight years of Socialist sloth and corruption left Fidesz with a mess that has been made much worse by the euro crisis.
He sold sloth claws, elephant jaws, wolf molars, dinosaur ribs a wide range of anatomical fragments that went, mostly, for between ten and fifty dollars.
But given the sloth-like pace of the courts, such British-style restrictions may mean that serious allegations are heard about only long after the event.
"The labor laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hardworking, " he said.
So he drew on the teachings of Saul the Sloth, who taught him to take from those who have, and give to those who do not.
The biggest enemies of startup entrepreneurs are not their brethren starting other companies: the true enemies are Sloppy Thinking about Markets, Misguided Execution, and Sloth.
Many patient advocates, members of Congress and of course, drug- and device-industry reps have chided the agency for its sloth despite all that additional funding.
To win the accolade, though, he will have to vanquish Radio 1Xtra's Charlie Sloth, Classic FM's John Suchet, Radio 2 veteran Ken Bruce and 6 Music's Lauren Laverne.
Of course, the logical way to avoid feeling like a sloth is not to feast on greasy fast food with a dessert of candy from the vending machine.
Given this pool of talent, Britain's relative sloth is surprising.
Roughly even, at around 30 percent, were greed (craving attention), lust (what it sounds like) and sloth (texting instead of calling, for example, or being online instead of exercising).
What he means is sharply expressed in his warning to young people not to lapse into dependency but to work to improve their skills, to avoid crime, sloth and disorderly conduct.
Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
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