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• I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

  David Letterman

  Prison, Be Good, Shipwreck

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

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• What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.

  Shepard Fairey

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

  Sandra Lee

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Today

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• I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life And Love, Intelligent, Feminist

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• I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

  David Attenborough

  Clever, Thinking, Way

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Jobs, Smart

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• If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Buttons

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• An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.

  Nikola Tesla

  Life, Average, Safety

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

  Roz Savage

  Ocean, Way, Sides

  "Why I'm rowing across the Pacific". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2010.

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• The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Justice For All

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• You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wise, Horse, Kids

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Risk, Survival

  "‘Paradise Built in Hell:’ How Disaster Brings Out the Best in People". Interview with Maia Szalavitz, March 22, 2011.

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• I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Boys, Years, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.

  Keren Woodward

  Clever, Character, Intelligent

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• Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

  Yann Martel

  Nature, Animal, Effort

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

  Matthew Quick

  Powerful, Silly, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

  Robert Ludlum

  Vegetables, Bourne Identity

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.110, Bantam

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• The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

  George C. Homans

  Men, Liberty, Doctrine

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• Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.

  Jamie Durie

  Nature, Children, Powerful

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• Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Way

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• Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

  Joseph Heller

  Lying, Successful, People

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Wine, Life Experience

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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