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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.

  George Sand

  Winter, Twenties, Aging

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• Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

  Walter Scott

  Simple, Race, Toil

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 4, ad fin.

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• He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Skins

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sadness, Space, Misery

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Sadness, Science

  John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”

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• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Country, Travel, Character

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• If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Wisdom, Ambition, Buddhism

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• On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Single Mom, Buddhism, Suffering

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• We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

  Anthony de Mello

  Night, Light, Worry

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, Government, Land

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• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.34, Random House

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Sorrow, Vines

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

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• There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

  Mark Twain

  Encouragement, Stress, Issues

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

  Tom Szaky

  Men, Ideas, Garbage

  Tom Szaky (2013). “Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste”, p.70, Penguin

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• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

  Tim Minchin

  Inspirational, Dream, Persons

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• So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

  Joan Blos

  Motivational, Want, Scared

  Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.

  James Hutton

  Mean, Science, Land

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• If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Technology, Men, Use

  "Economics As a Science". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1970.

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• Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

  Roger Schank

  Terrible, Interest, Security

  Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer (2013). “Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Self, Hands

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Humanity, Dinosaurs, Energy

  Svante Arrhenius (1925). “Chemistry in modern life”

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• The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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