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• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  Dan Lipinski

  Hero, Our Veterans, Firefighter

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• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Environmental, Needs

  "Summit Says: Instant Interviews". www.dailysummit.net. August 26, 2002.

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• Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Play, Innovation

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

  Richard Branson

  War, Years, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Earth, May

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

  Louis C. K.

  Needs, Saws, Pool

  "Louis CK Laughs His Way to the Bank" by Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 22, 2011.

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

  Eric Clapton

  Real, Character, Discovery

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• When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Lasts, Possession

  "Global Warming and the Meaning of Doom" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Responsibility, Oil

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• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

  "President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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• My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

  Graydon Carter

  Prayer, Ideas, Swings

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Brave, Desperate

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  Dan Benishek

  Jobs, School, Prison

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• Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Ignorance, Wings

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

  Cindy Gallop

  People, Tolerance, Complaining

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• The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Agriculture, Diversity

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• I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Scientist, Enough

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• If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Wish, Heritage

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• If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

  Michael Franti

  Refugee Crisis, Land, Water

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Giving, World

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• Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Health, Science

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• If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

  Herman Cain

  Oil, Independence, Energy

  Herman Cain's remarks at the Republican primary debate at Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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