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• Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Hands, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison

  Military, Government, Europe

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.221

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

  William James

  Use, Half, Limits

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• The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Needs, Development, Wells

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• Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Defense, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.59, Modern Library

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• As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Community, Domestic Violence, Defense

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.231, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

  Jordan Belfort

  Success, Past, Empowering

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

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• There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

  John Denver

  Hate, Thinking, Color

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• No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Practice, Culture

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• Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Land, Culture

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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• Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

  Hilary Benn

  Business, Needs, Management

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• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

  David Miliband

  Business, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Eye, Best Practices

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• A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

  Phil Harding

  Business, Management, Environment

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• Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

  Phil Harding

  Business, Cost, Earth

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• Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

  David Miliband

  Business, Responsibility, Rights

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• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

  Toby Robins

  Business, Environmental, Climate

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• In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Years, Cities

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• He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Running, Fighting, Battle

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