"There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times."
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"We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste."
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"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further."
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"He's so small, he's a waste of skin."
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"Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it."
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"Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes."
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"I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it."
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"I never waste time looking back."
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"When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness."
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"Life is too short to waste."
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"A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space."
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"We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste."
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"I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time."
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"It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation."
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"Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?"
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"There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish."
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"Time is a waste of money."
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"I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories."
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"Every day you waste is one you can never make up."
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"One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old."
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