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• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

  Tom Peters

  Technology, Blue, Office

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• Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

  Steven Pinker

  Revenge, War, Water

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. 10 November, 2011.

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• Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

  Steven Pinker

  Climate, Scarcity, Waste

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

  Steven Pinker

  Track, Records, Prevention

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• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Technology, Thinking, Oil

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• Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Energy, Lasts, Sun

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• The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Style, Made, Difficult

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• We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Thinking, Romance

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• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Play, Keys

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• Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.

  Ken Salazar

  People, New Day, Needs

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• Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Men, Knows

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

  Howard Schultz

  Growing Up, People, Track

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Company You Keep, Age

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

  Simon Sinek

  Winning, Organization, Ideas

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• I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Documentaries, Filmmaker, Has Beens

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Struggle, School, Poor Neighborhoods

  Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7th, 2013.

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• Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

  Alex Steffen

  Cities, Decision, Energy

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

  James Surowiecki

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, People, Decision

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  David Suzuki

  People, Friendly, Bags

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• Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Water, Waste

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

  David Suzuki

  Running, Opportunity, Energy

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