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How to use the word Wasted in a Sentence? Page #6

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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half.

John Wanamaker

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

John Lennon

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I wasted time, now time doth waste me.

William Shakespeare, Richard II

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

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Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

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Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

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I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S Truman

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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Anonymous

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

Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara DeAngelis

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

Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

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Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

Mort Crim

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E. E. Cummings

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Russell Hoban

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What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

Sean O'Casey

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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