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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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• 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

  Austin Farrer

  Life, Peace, Kindness

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• Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

  Bill Maher

  Borders, Etch A Sketch, Pakistan

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• Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Men, Safe

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• The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.

  Isaac Stern

  Stupid, Greatest Wealth, People

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• There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Fiction, Pieces, Prose

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• People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

  Gloria Steinem

  Work, People, Waiting

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• It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Shortness, Short Time

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• People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

  Daniel Quinn

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books

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• Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

  John Derbyshire

  Lying, Sea, Rolling

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

  Scott Adams

  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

  Confucius

  Time, Reflection, Study

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• Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

  Chief Seattle

  Night, Bed, One Night

  Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”

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• Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

  Ward Connerly

  Party, Names, Race

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• I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

  Martin Yan

  Night, Next Day, Left

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• Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste

  Zentatsu Richard Baker

  Years, Training, Gone

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• The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

  Watchman Nee

  Ideas, Underestimate, Christianity

  Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.185, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heaven, Atheism, Nihilism

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

  Craig Reucassel

  Thinking, Space, Bombs

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• Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

  Eric Knight

  Earth Day, Mountain, Environmental

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• He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.

  Lubomir Kavalek

  Fighting, Offering, Energy

  "Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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• When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feelings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.5, editionNEXT.com

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• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

  Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

  Horse, Class, Racing

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