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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

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

— George Best

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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

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It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part. ↗

— John Breaux

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill. ↗

— Joe Baca

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Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"? ↗

— Bill Willingham

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

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