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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
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.
In a survey of 562 adults on those and other social networks, about 70 percent admitted to committing at least one of the Bible's Seven Deadly Sins: gluttony, lust, greed, pride, wrath, envy and sloth.
In his "Divine Comedy" of the 14th century, the sin he condemned most vigorously was "ignavia, " by which he meant sloth -- the failure to take responsibility, the failure to show moral courage and to change things.
Why should we finance sloth and irresponsibility?
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Mr Goodwin's lyrical, impressionistic approach, while appropriate to his descriptions of palace life and society, becomes a hindrance when he examines the confluence of military reverses, sloth at court and European technological advance that heralded the empire's decline.
Richard W. Judy, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Workforce Development, in Indianapolis, Indiana, cites several institutional factors contributing to Europe's sloth: generous unemployment insurance, a regulatory burden that discourages hiring, easier retirement rules and tax rates that reduce incentives.
This perhaps explains why Pench Tiger Reserve, 140km to the south, also vies for the title of Jungle Book territory, while Satpura National Park, 300km to the west, is a core habitat for the utterly delightful sloth bear (Baloo from the stories), with a few also found in Kanha.
And that's why, in some sense, it sounds so counterintuitive that it's sometimes sloth and just standing there and doing nothing will give you a better performance than trying to think you're so smart and you can get in and out at the right time because you don't get in and out at the right time.
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