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• The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

  James Gilligan

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Mother, Running

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions on Business Philosophy", www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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• Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

  Paul Valery

  Education, Ignorance, Men

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• The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Education, Children, Creativity

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• Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Clear Direction, Giving, Perfect

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• One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!

  Richard L. Evans

  Home, Heart, Feelings

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• Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Friendship, Hours, Good Company

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Simple, People

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• In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Commitment, Loss, Player

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

  Alexander Elder

  Regret, Real, Eye

  Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

  Amari Cooper

  Gifts And Talents, Use, Proud

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• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Hate, Life Is Too Short

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Guilt, Emotion, Moments

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  Tilda Swinton

  Meaningful, Kindness, Self

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• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  Richard Jenkins

  Meaningful, Life Is, Minutes

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• But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

  Robert Peel

  Courage, Men, Natural

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• Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

  Lennart Meri

  Morning, Mirrors, Ties

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• This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Hate, Real, Reading

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• It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

  Charles Tupper

  Power, Bills, Wasting Time

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• I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

  Bob Riley

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

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• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  John Woolman

  Country, Time, Grief

  John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156

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• A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Skills, Accomplishment, Brain

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