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[...] The preparation of food is a waste of time. [...]

[...] A reaction on your part would be wasted, for the situation will soon change. [...]

(I would like to add that I found the session to be excellent as usual, but also found some of the material sad and depressing: It looked like we had a lot of wasted years involved in negative thinking, and that we were now struggling to get out of or rid of. [...]

[...] They do not require then the full artillery of your defenses—a great waste of your time and effort that could, of course, be devoted to your work.

[...] You would not be forced to work as he did, and waste his creativity, so you chose a wife who would make no such demands—apart from other reasons. [...]

In nature nothing is wasted, so the luxurious growth of man’s dream landscapes are also utilized. [...]

(I explained to her, as we waited for the session to begin, my dilemma about Note 6 for Appendix 22—my feeling of time wasted after I’d spent a couple of days writing it very carefully—only to have it fall apart at the last moment because I’d forgotten to deal with one crucial point. [...]

[...] He believed that you thought it a waste of time, so he did not believe his lack of physical mobility that way would hamper you.

In the face of the belief that the painting or the book would be miserable if produced, each good sentence or artistic stroke would be the opportunity not for rejoicing but for dismay: “Aha, what a fine stroke to be wasted, for the painting will surely go astray.” [...]

“So,” I joked, “the day wasn’t a total waste after all. [...]

Following the accident at TMI, and aside from the great fears “generated” by it, a host of problems began accumulating for the nuclear power industry—involving everything from poor plant design (as Seth commented in the 914th session for Chapter 7 of Dreams), to enormous cost overruns and the fear of default on bond issues, shoddy construction and quality control, human and mechanical error, the disposal of radioactive waste, conflicts with antinuclear and environmental groups, arguments over evacuation plans at various nuclear-plant sites, a greatly expanded list of steps (numbering in the thousands) that the NRC is compiling for utilities to take in order to increase the safety of their plants, and even governmental concern over the possible manipulation and falsification of plant safety records. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) When can the search for the good have catastrophic results, and how can the idealism of science be equated with the near-disaster at Three Mile Island, and with the potential disasters that in your terms exist in the storage of nuclear wastes, or in the production of nuclear bombs?

[...] I picked up something about that, too: The real question, for example, isn’t one of planetary pollution, or nuclear wastes, but the beliefs that make such questions even arise, and the attitudes that see an idealized good worth such risks. [...]

[...] He thought they were fascinating, charming, self-destructive, and wasted most of their time in emotional and sexual excursions leading nowhere. [...]

[...] His own interpretation of the communication attempt is correct, so I shall not waste time discussing it.

[...] It seemed like a great waste.

[...] No matter how wasteful with words a person might seem to be, each one contains an amazing economy, and is chosen precisely because it is a perfect carrier for certain intents or feelings that are all organized by that word. [...]

[...] Nobody else in the class is interested in wasting time.”)

[...] Then it means that you do not waste time and energy in apathy, or in crying over the past, but that you see yourself at last beginning upon a course of action that is highly important. [...]

[...] (Now Jane touched the carbon copy of the manuscript of her dream book.) The energy in this book was not wasted. [...]