Scarce Quotes - Page 12

• There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Mind, Killing

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• The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

  Richard Steele

  Son, Men, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125

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• In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

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• In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.

  Aml Ameen

  Waiting Around, People, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.

  DJ Spooky

  Ideas, Resources, These Days

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.

  Jay Inslee

  Community, Atmosphere, Needs

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Waste, Patient, Poor

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• Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

  William Ashworth

  Basketball, Rivers, Lakes

  William Ashworth (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.

  Murray Rothbard

  Land, Important, Example

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• Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

  Leonard Read

  Years, Skills, People

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• Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Leader, Good Leader, Following

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• Competence is no longer scarce.

  Seth Godin

  Competence

  Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.16, Penguin

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• If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

  Zig Ziglar

  Needs, Ifs

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• The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Men, Creation

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• When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knaves, Betray, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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• The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.

  Chris Bowen

  Real, Tears, Veils

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• Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

  John Suckling

  Guilt, Shadow, Evening

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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beauty, Flattery, Gross

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

  William Cowper

  Clerks, Sparks, Preaching

  William Cowper, John Smythe MEMES (1861). “The Letters of William Cowper. Edited by Rev. J. S. Memes. [With a Portrait.]”, p.82

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• A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wings, Goal, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

  Julian Simon

  Past, Years, Giving

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• The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

  James Lane Allen

  Book, Virginia, Remembrance

  James Lane Allen (2016). “The reign of law. A tale of the Kentucky hemp fields.”, p.2, Aegitas

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• The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Community, Leader

  "The Wrath Of Grapes: Oklahoma City MAPS Its Future" by Mick Cornett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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• So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wish, Pity

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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