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• Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.

  Marin Mersenne

  Nature, Truth, Father

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• Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

  Yasmina Reza

  Wasting Time, Courtesy

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• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

  Carl Shapiro

  Running, Body, Use

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• All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

  Adam Clarke

  Abuse, Creation, Robbery

  Adam Clarke (1825). “The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments ... : with a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed to Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings”, p.25

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• Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Abuse, Criticism, Energy

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• We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

  John Hagee

  Change, Heart, Wasting Time

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• In the heavens there is calmness
  and on the earth there is beauty.
  In the gardens there is freshness
  and in you there is a sign.
  In the sea there is might
  and in the air there is nourishment.
  Take from all this comfort for your soul
  and recovery for your mind.
  And do not waste your time by being unmindful,
  this will shield you from good
  and lead you to evil.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Recovery

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• Your prayers are your light;
  Your devotion is your strength;
  Sleep is the enemy of both.
  Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
  If you ignore it, if you waste it,
  You will only turn to dust.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris (1994). “Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.115, Library of America

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

  Bill McKibben

  Business, Fuel, Fossils

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Business, Design, Environmental

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Loss, Guiding Principles

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• The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, People

  Sir Richard Branson (2012). “Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School”, p.26, Random House

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• My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

  Margot Asquith

  Attitude, Father, Lying

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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• I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

  Doris Day

  Love, Life, Family

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• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

  Lewis Carroll

  Peace, Nature, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Phantasmagoria”, p.190, Lewis Carroll

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• When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Heart, Talking, Inner Peace

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• Eternity - waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Time, Wasting Time, Eternity

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• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

  David Lloyd George

  Time, Political, Politics

  On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, November 1918.

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• Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Politics, Wasting Time

  "The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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