"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry."
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"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."
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"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."
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"A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct."
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"If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why."
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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"Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures."
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"I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves."
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"Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste."
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"Worry is a waste of emotional reserve"."
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"I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life."
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"I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk."
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"My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day."
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"If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it."
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"Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me."
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"Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop."
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"They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen."
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win."
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"The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness."
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