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"It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future."
"The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy."
"Life is already too short to waste on speed."
"Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands."
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
"Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting."
"I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it."
"The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son"
"The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."
"Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything."
"Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site."
"Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it."
"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage."
"Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another."
"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."
"Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed."
"Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words."
"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."