"Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time."
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"Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means."
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"He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little."
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"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages."
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"The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
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"Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart."
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"When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right."
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"If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones."
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"Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please."
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"The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end."
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"There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?"
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"Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste."
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"A writer wastes nothing."
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"A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste."
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"I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India."
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"I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time."
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"I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste."
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"Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear."
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"Waste today, want tomorrow."
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"He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind."
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