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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Husband, Men

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• That was the first sound in the song of love!
  Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
  Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
  Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
  And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
  The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Song, Fate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, Believe, Heaven

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.222

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Block, Ideas, Panic

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• When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Yield, Increase

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• One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Wizards, Facts

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• yet it seems
  Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
  Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
  But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
  And there's but common greenness after that.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Morning, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason artists show so little interest
  In public freedom is because the freedom
  They've come to feel the need of is a kind
  No one can give them they can scarce attain
  The freedom of their own material.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Artist, Government

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Gone, Information, Environment

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• The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Success, Failure, Evil

  Laurence Sterne (1872). “The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.301

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• Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

  Seth Godin

  Commodity, Competence

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• It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

  Seth

  Unlikely

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• In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

  David Adjaye

  Creating, Textiles, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Government, Giving, Fossils

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