Shortage Quotes - Page 6

• Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Labor Force, Competition

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• Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

  Nora Ephron

  Men, Trouble, Response

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.46, Vintage

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• I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Thinking, Talent, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

  George Soros

  Lying, Oil, Humanity

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• Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Character, Careers

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• It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Perfectly Good, Sheep

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• Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Sex, War, Justice

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• Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.

  Cesar Milstein

  Science, Pitfalls, Today

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• There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

  Stephen King

  World, Fool

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

  John H. Groberg

  Space, Immensity, Needed

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• The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Ocean, Blessing, Differences

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• A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

  Jerry Doyle

  Change, Sheep, People

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• Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Motivation, Character, Poverty

  "Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor". Essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, published in Maria Shriver "The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink", shriverreport.org. January 13, 2014.

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• The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Problem, Moments

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• Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Gaps, Today

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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• Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mistake, Loss, Self

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• It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, World, Serious

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• Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

  Armand Hammer

  Oil

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• ...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

  Seth Godin

  Doors, Humanity, Hustle

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.89, Penguin

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• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Communication

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• there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

  John Green

  Stars, Faults, Found

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

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• We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

  Milton Friedman

  Oil, Law, Two

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• We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Suffering, Matter, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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