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...a great future behind him, already

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn ...

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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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Charles DarwinThe Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- misti...

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My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping ...

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I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

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We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing a...

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The world is full of ways and means to waste time

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private ...

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..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a doll...

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Henry HazlittEconomics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers...

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Henry HazlittEconomics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences...

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Herman MelvilleMardi and a Voyage Thither

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all...

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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young Werther

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

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I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it wheth...

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The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other ...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecke...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than ...

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..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusi...

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate...

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Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely tu...

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Samuel BeckettCollected Poems in English and French

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is bo...

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Thomas GrayAn Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacri...

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. ...

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