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“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.”

Ifs Way Use Seems Greater Mountain Waste Productions Reckless Exuberance

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.”

Ifs Humans Opportunity Loss Practice Greater Right Now Activity Waste Enlightenment Meaningless Foolishness Rebirth Dharma

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.”

People Thinking Men Feels Trying Greater Terrible Waste Accomplish Honestly Greater Things Devalue

Author:Jack Kirby

“The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.”

States Moments Greater Waste Assumption Stopping Subjective

Book:teh armies of the night

Source: teh armies of the night

“The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.”

Way Needs States Problem Light Faces Individual Community Answers Results Greater Higher Taxes Waste Spending Priorities Addresses Locality

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

“Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)”

Two Numbers Greater Waste Empty Ice Chocolate Cream Ice Cream Cookies Jerry Containers Mint Vanilla Vanilla Ice Cream

Author:Ally Carter

“The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

May Stills Two Together Moving Life Is Given Water Greater Sky Wind Masters Waste Standing Wings Speed Streams Climbs Haste Rushing Radiance Standing Still Oar Swiftness

Book:A Further Range

Source: A Further Range

“Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.”

Way Ends Hate Opportunity Greater Teacher Our Lives Fashion Amount Ten Waste Pages Deserve Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Episodes Volume Crash Don't Waste Your Time

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.”

Ifs Government Greater Waste Harm Bad Things Thank God Government Waste

Author:Milton Friedman

“And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.”

People Greater Middle Waste Clock My Time Goods Theft Resent Middle Aged Clock Ticking

Book:Heaven's Prisoners

Source: Heaven's Prisoners