"If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own."
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"This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?"
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"It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing."
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"You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive."
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"Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals."
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"For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain."
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"I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it."
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"It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious"
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"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."
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"It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it."
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"An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it."
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"How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste."
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"Never let a good crisis go to waste"
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"No one should waste a day."
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"Where there is abundance you can afford waste."
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"Waste is only waste if we waste it."
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"I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time."
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"I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come."
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"If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now."
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"Who loses a day loses life."
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