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• Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Circles, Church

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.183

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Source, Deeper, Know How

  John Campbell Shairp (1872). “Studies in Poetry and Philosophy”, p.333

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• Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Remembrance, Funeral, Fame

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Arrows

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
  A nameless piece of Babyhood,
  Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
  Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Dying, Coffins

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.182

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• I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

  Charles Lamb

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.53

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Encouragement, Lying, Class

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.

  Edmund Spenser

  Winter, Hands, Teeth

  Edmund Spenser (1869). “The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues”, p.786

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• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Leader

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• There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Intrigue

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• I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Social, Advantage, Impressed

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.

  Rajiv Shah

  War, Reality, Long

  "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world

  Hugo Gernsback

  America, Movement, Magazines

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• Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Pay, Pleasure

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• And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Lying, Rivers, Water

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting With the verdure-vested ground; Now like swallows o'er a river Gliding low with quivering pinion, Now aloft in ether sailing "Leisurely as summer cloud;" Rising now, anon descending, Swift and bright as shooting stars, Thus we travel glad and free.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Summer, Stars, Clouds

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.261

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• The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

  Adam Braun

  Passion, Collaboration, United States

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• There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

  Ralph Merkle

  California, Example, Certain

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Phones, Cells, Use

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• Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Men, Commodity, Rice

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.8, Vintage

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• It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Real, Aquifers

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• Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Gravestone, Forty

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

  Clayton Christensen

  People, Needs, Investing

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