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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. ↗

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. ↗

— David Cameron

#back #cut #damaging #decisions #difficult

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. ↗

— Hartley William Shawcross

#fellow #futile #me #other #seems

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#laughed #most #wasted #which

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #find

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#i #life #long #much #my life

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#best #excited #hard #i #i can

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#american #american people #believe #bush #bush administration

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#agendas #amount #committee #could #fill