#squander

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#life #love #love life #made #squander

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#opportunity #position #right #right thing #should

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money: we can squander it ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#squander #squandering #wealth #money

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. ↗

— George Best

#birds #booze #cars #fast #fast cars

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#determined #murray #opportunity #over #patient

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#committed #cost #delivers #each #expended