"Don't waste your youth growing up."
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"If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it."
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"Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness."
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"And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money."
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"Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed."
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"I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions."
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"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
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"That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away."
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"If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time."
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"If it doesn't add value, it's waste."
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"Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris."
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"It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done."
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"Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition."
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"Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else."
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"Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent."
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"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
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"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."
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"Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more."
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"He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin."
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"A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!"
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