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• Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Stones, Lasts

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  Alexander Pope

  Hurt, Lawyer, Scribes

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.111

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• The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Children, Law

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• An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Intelligent, Class, Intelligence

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• Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Men, Giving

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• Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Skills, Oil

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• I do not ask for a path with no trouble or regret. I ask instead for a friend who'll walk with me down any path.I do not ask never to feel pain. I ask instead for courage, even when hope can scarce shine through.And one more thing I ask:That in every hour of joy or pain, I feel the Creator close by my side. This is my truest prayer for myself and for all I love, now and forever, Amen.

  Kersten Hamilton

  Love, Regret, Prayer

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• Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Quality, Essentials

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Spirit, Action

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company”, p.140, Booklassic

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• The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

  Frank Herbert

  Oil, Water, Scarcity

  "Dune Genesis". Essay in "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 72, July 1980.

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• To be wise and eke to love,
  Is granted scarce to gods above.

  Edmund Spenser

  Life, Wise, Love Is

  'The Shepherd's Calendar' (1579) 'March. Willy's Emblem'

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• When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

  Antonio Guterres

  Desperate Measures, Worry, Domestic Violence

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• Where the greater malady is fixed,
  The lesser is scarce felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Fixed, Malady

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• The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

  Fred Brooks

  Beach, Team, Ocean

  "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.

  Thomas Sowell

  Squirrels, Nuts, Class

  "A time to speak plain". "Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", July 24, 2012.

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• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "The Complete Works of Herman Melville".

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• It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Air, Sea, America

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Events, May

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )”, p.105, e-artnow

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• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Love, Money, Men

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 6, p. 161, 1977.

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• Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Gold, Thinker

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• Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, Diamond Jubilee

  "'The haves and have yachts': Clegg blasts Gove's call for a new royal ship for the Queen as a Jubilee present". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2012.

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• When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, Electric Power, People

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• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Management

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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