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Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

Randy K. Milholland

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

Brent Erickson

A major concern is that this commission already dominated by Idaho -- a state long-opposed to the restoration of the 1,500-square-mile basin -- will overwhelm Washington state, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe and others advocating the cleanup of mine wastes.

John Osborn

Gas flaring wastes resources and harms the environment. It also deprives developing country consumers of an energy source that is cleaner and often cheaper than others available. Using that gas rather than wasting it would stimulate economic development.

Rashad Kaldany

In our part of the country, energy savings comes from high-efficiency furnaces. If folks only have X amount of dollars to replace both their furnace and air conditioner, the more they pay for the air conditioner, the less they have for the furnace. They will end up with a high SEER air conditioner they don't need, and settle for a lower efficiency furnace that wastes energy.

Jim Williams

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Sharp

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

Douglas Pagels

It is thoroughly irresponsible to promote the use of nuclear power when there is still no technically feasible means of assuring that long-lived radioactive wastes can be isolated from the environment. Further, this will do nothing to solve the current predicament we have with rising electricity costs.

Wenonah Hauter

There's much more efficient use of materials [in prefab] than in site-built construction. Go by any construction site and you'll see enormous scrap wastes getting thrown into Dumpsters.

Michael Sylvester

Nothing wastes more energy than something nobody buys.

Joseph Romm

There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.

Hugh Macleod

Few players cover as much ground as Philip does during the course of a game. He seems to be in perpetual motion and he rarely if ever wastes a ball.

Mickey Harte

The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.

Norman Vincent Peale

It's not just a matter of the cost of the airplane vs. the cost of an airline ticket, ... You have to factor in the amount of time an executive wastes waiting for connecting flights or being forced to stay overnight on the road instead of flying direct.

Robert Mark

By using crop wastes as well as grain, we could be producing tens of billions of gallons of ethanol in this country every year and lessening our dependence on foreign petroleum.

Brent Erickson