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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And pe

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller

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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Langs feeble imagination. – Henry Miller

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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. – Benjamin Franklin

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. – Lewis Thomas

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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. – Charles Stanley

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money. – Margaret Thatcher

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato

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