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“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”

Ifs Mean Children Use Would Be Dies Left Born Liberty Baby Goodness Waste Organization Structure Useless Vain Starvation Nourishment Cornerstones

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.”

People World Past Asks Easy Born Information Lessons Waste Meaning Of Life Predecessors Knowledge And Information Brief Life

Author:Erik Naggum

“As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.”

Stills Values Born Waste Yesterday My Time Family Values Puff Minnesota Wasting My Time Blown Away Dandelions Don't Waste My Time

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.”

Want Feels Born Perfect Color Waste Daughter Lips My Daughter

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.”

“There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.”

Kind Persons Wish Born Happened Like You Waste Wasting Time No Point

Author:Patty Hearst

“For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.”

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Born Dark Darkness Air Flower Bears Waste Ocean Desert Gray Rays Unseen Sweetness Caves Serene Gems

Author:Thomas Gray

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.”

Born Air Flower Waste Desert Unseen Fragrance

Book:Emma: An Annotated Edition

Source: Emma: An Annotated Edition

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

Moments Suffering Dies Born Buddhism Waste Single Mom

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.”

World Children Country Lasts Energy Nations Born Planets Return Waste Raises Lifetime Climate Change Lifestyle Vulnerable Burning Developing Pushing Wealthy Our World Our Planet

Author:George Carey

“Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!”

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.”

Way Long Doe Two Important Ends Matter Done Seems Law Dies Reading Felt Born Our Lives Events Waste Making Money Maximum Doings Important Events Practicing Law

Author:Clarence Darrow