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He paraphrased the United Negro College Fund’s tagline, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” as “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”

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Former Vice President Dan Quayle’s mangling of a United Negro College Fund advertising slogan, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind,” has, perhaps mercifully, been dropped.

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This morsel from another man who might consider staying out of the sun on golf courses aptly describes our current stubborn and misguided leader: “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

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A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he lost himself in a self-indicting verbal fog: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind.

She leaned her head down on her father's shoulder and thought how sad it must be to lose one's mind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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