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• There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Alma Mater, Individual

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3604, Delphi Classics

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• There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Jobs, Children, War

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• When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.

  William Gurstelle

  Strong, Writing, Ideas

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• The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

  Van Jones

  Sexy, Jobs, Green

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.

  Samantha Harris

  Girl, Children, Ideas

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• A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

  Doug Ose

  Issues, Safe, National Security

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• If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
  I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Reason

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [267]

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• Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

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• And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is "good for the economy," and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Years, Rivers

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.147, Counterpoint Press

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• It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.473

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• In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Lonely, Decision

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". a16z.com. August 07, 2011.

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• You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Income, May

  Louis Kronenberger, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1947). “The Portable Johnson & Boswell”, New York

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• When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  Young Jeezy

  Live Your Life, Firsts

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• ... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Water, Acting, Genius

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

  Alice Walker

  Revolution, Scarce

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Men, Abundance

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• So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Reality, Thinking, Talking

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• None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.

  Cyprian

  Kindness, Hate, People

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• Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

  B. B. King

  Music, Son, Men

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• Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

  Isaac Barrow

  Math, Foundation, Affair

  Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28

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• Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

  Melanie Rawn

  Affection, Source, This Life

  Melanie Rawn (2005). “The Star Scroll”, p.315, Penguin

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• General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

  Mercy Otis Warren

  New York, Army, Islands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.316

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• While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

  Daymond John

  Struggle, Ideas, Payroll Tax

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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.167, Penguin

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