Quotes with squandering

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth
  English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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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
  English poet (1731 - 1800)
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• The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

  John Mason Brown
  American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• institutions
• obligations
• consequence
• abdication
• spectacle

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