Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i. e. waste nothing.

节俭：花钱必须于己于人有益；换言之，切忌浪费。

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However, it can be true! Nothing is a waste if we have a creative mind.

然而，这可能是真的！如果我们有一个创造性的头脑，没有什么是浪费。

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Some people argue that reading novels is nothing but a waste of time.

有些人认为阅读小说只不过是浪费时间。

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But there's nothing Honda hates more than waste, and there is nothing Honda likes more than an engineering problem.

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After all, as businesses, we can choose to run them however we wish, and forcing people to be who they, in fact, are in real life may clean up the nagging annoyance of garbage comments that contribute nothing and waste everybody's time.

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And to me, it's more important that this whole year (unintelligible) has been gone, not go to waste and not go for nothing.

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