Plentiful Quotes

• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  Adam Hochschild

  Time, Hardship, Distraction

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• Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Communication

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• I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

  Lech Walesa

  Falling In Love, Historical, World

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• Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

  Jacque Fresco

  Practice, Survival, Earth

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupidity And Ignorance, Hydrogen

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• The beautiful is never plentiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.95, University of Missouri Press

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• Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

  Stephen King

  Powerful, Drug, World

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Humble, Intelligence

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• We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities, Promise, Overcoming

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• Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Tunnels

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”

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• To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

  Jerome Frank

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank".

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• For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Would Be, Clean

  "Eat Out, Drink Up and Save Lives" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

  Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson (2007). “Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too”, p.14, B&H Publishing Group

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• Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

  Steven Pinker

  Class, Criticism, Entertainment

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.370, Penguin

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• An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  War, Humanity, Sacred

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• The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Fate, Greed

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

  William Bourke Cockran

  Mother, Children, Generosity

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• They have a plentiful lack of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Spirit, Wit

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

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• Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

  Harriet Martineau

  Funny Inspirational, Reading, Knowledge

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176

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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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• Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

  Lech Walesa

  Greatness, Deeds

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• Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

  Buffalo Bill

  Years, Two, Ponies

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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