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• The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Century, Somalia, Results

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Pieces, Erratic

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• Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

  George Soros

  Lying, Oil, Humanity

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• Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

  Nora Ephron

  Men, Trouble, Response

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.46, Vintage

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Critics

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• I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Thinking, Talent, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, War, Self

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• These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, People

  "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow".

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• Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Motivation, Character, Poverty

  "Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor". Essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, published in Maria Shriver "The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink", shriverreport.org. January 13, 2014.

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• The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

  Tom Peters

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Voice, America, President

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• There is no shortage of evidence that when we support the fundamental freedoms of women and girls, they are able to realize their full potential to engage in, contribute to and benefit from sustainable development. In doing so, we will all reap the benefits; in our homes, throughout our communities, and across our nations.

  Sam Kutesa

  Girl, Home, Support

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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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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Optimistic, Science, Vision

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• In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

  Gil Kane

  Paper

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• What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Support, Empowerment, Black

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Problem, Moments

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• Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Labor Force, Competition

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• The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Ocean, Blessing, Differences

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• Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Gaps, Today

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• Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

  Stephen King

  World, Fool

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, Too Late, World

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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