"I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time."
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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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"Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time."
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"It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments."
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"When we waste our time, our time wastes us"
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"Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting."
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"Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things."
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"we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations."
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"Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write."
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"'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another."
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"There is no waste of time like making excuses."
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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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"Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time."
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"Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons"
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"What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money."
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"Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness."
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"Wasting time has an esthetics to it."
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"Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear."
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"Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door."
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"Politics is a waste of time."
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