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• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Time, Water, Environmental

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• We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.

  Barbara Jordan

  Reality, Feelings, Immigration

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• Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

  George F. Kennan

  Healthy, Weakness, Inability

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• I believe that Streamline should be part of our toolbox of things that we use at the border. And there needs to be a variety of things that we use at the border to get the most effective enforcement strategy. And so really it's a resource issue more than anything else.

  Janet Napolitano

  Believe, Issues, Immigration

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• We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

  Robert Redford

  Running, Passion, Mean

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• The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

  Norman Cousins

  Real, America, World

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• Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Future, Science

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• In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.

  Karl Albrecht

  Team, Eye, Organization

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• The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Men, Order

  Louis Agassiz (1863). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.4, Ayer Company Pub

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• The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

  Jim Wright

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann

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• It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

  Medea Benjamin

  Kings, War, Focus

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• There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.

  Vern Huffman

  War, Stress, Survival

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• Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Punishment

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• Immigration and border security remain critical issues that I am committed to addressing this year. The good news is that illegal immigration is at an all-time low, making now the time to dedicate the needed technology and resources to finally secure the border for good. As border security improves, I look forward to working in a bipartisan manner to fix our broken immigration system and address the millions of people living in the United States outside of legal status.

  John McCain

  Technology, Years, Issues

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• I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Years, Law

  FaceBook post by Senator Ted Cruz from Jan 28, 2013

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• With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

  Jeff Miller

  War, Men, Lines

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• I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Believe, Technology

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• Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Diversity, Too Much

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Educational, Fighting, Race

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• You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Book, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Men, Light

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.263

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• Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enlightened

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicidal, Brain, Mind

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.92, Vintage

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• We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Grief

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