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• Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Elderly, Population

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• Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.

  Israel Regardie

  Yoga, Mean, Men

  Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

  Franklin Graham

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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• Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Creativity, Creative

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

  Aaron Wildavsky

  Dream, Rejection, Growth

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• Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

  Walter E. Williams

  Order, Land, Entrepreneur

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.351, Hoover Institution Press

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• In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

  Ivan Illich

  Motivation, School, Opportunity

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.

  Greg Mankiw

  Study, Economics, Scarce

  "Principles of Economics". Book by N. Gregory Mankiw, 2015.

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• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Humanity, Trying, Spirit

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.159, New York Review of Books

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• So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

  Evan Parker

  Unique, Saxophone, Possibility

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• Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

  Kenny Marchant

  Energy, Anwr, Today

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• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.

  Jacque Fresco

  Games, Play, Long

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• There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

  Pope John Paul II

  Powerful, Media, Understanding

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• If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.

  Jacque Fresco

  Country, War, Thinking

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• Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

  Lester Thurow

  Thinking, May, Facts

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• All the world's people should share all the world's resources.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, World, Share

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• The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates.  It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Population, Earth

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• Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

  Andrew Simms

  Growth, World, Infinite

  "Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness" by Ashley Seager, Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Men, Female

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• Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, People

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• A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.

  Jacque Fresco

  Zero, War, People

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• Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

  Jacque Fresco

  Agreement, People, Survival

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