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“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.”

World Earth Rooms Gone Sea Land Right Now Waste Surface Plenty Heavenly Fifth Tanks Drains

Author:David Berg

“I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.”

Trying Feelings Rooms Waste Wasting Time Feeling Bad

Author:Sam Berns

“Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us.”

Heart Lying Jesus Christ Rooms Waste Inns Religion And Politics Worldliness

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.”

Source: The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark

“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."”

Way Loses Loss Rooms Responsibility Minutes Talent Amount Waste Corporate Employee Productive Family Responsibility

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.”

Humans I Can Imagination Rooms Products Waste Weakness Cosmos Deities

Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.”

Stills Together Differences Sleep Rooms Common Cases Study Waste Extraordinary Meals Underestimate Catalogues

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.”

Ifs Writing Wells Doe I Can Might Rooms Focus Members Waste Folks Contact Crucial Wasting Time Representatives Living Room

Author:Ezra G. Levin

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.”

Writing Heaven Perfect Rooms Waste Paper Sitting Gold Wasting Time Blank Perfect Days Blank Paper

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.”

“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.”

Source: The Plague

“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.”

“I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy”

Rooms Deals Mines Safe Waste Empty Clean Suits Mess Staring Gas Mask Doom Messy Gloves Immaculate Where She Went Empty Rooms Gas Masks

Author:Gayle Forman

“No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.”

Ifs Looks I Can Matter Reason Helping Light Eye Hurt Dark Rooms Numbers Waste Disagree Electricity It Hurts Brightness Moths

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.”

Life Humans Science Rooms Acting Struggle Habit Degrees Waste Constant Population Human Life Perpetual Prodigious Emigration

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay