Supplies Quotes - Page 5

• So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Development, Politics

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• The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

  Daniel Yergin

  Energy, Today, Starting

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• Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

  Geronimo

  Mother, Children, Warrior

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Excess, World

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• In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

  Kelly Miller

  Soldier, Losing, Individualism

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

  Dorothea Brande

  Philosophy, Mind, Prejudice

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

  Robert Graves

  Genius, Answers, Diagnosis

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• When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

  Mencius

  Exercise, Men, Office

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323

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• Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

  George Santayana

  Life, Art, Peace

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.107, MIT Press

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• GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Writing, Bird, Feelings

  Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)

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• The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
  Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
  Let others say his heart is big,
  I think it stupid of the Pig.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Stupid, Heart

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think it's something people should be considering given the emergency situation we're in regarding water supplies, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems. There's a lot of overlap between animal rights and the environment.

  Emily Deschanel

  Animal, Thinking, Rights

  "One on One with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Ligaya Figueras, www.vegetariantimes.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

  Peter Weiss

  Art, Blessed, Games

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• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Growing Up, Earthquakes, Feelings

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Russia, Counter Attack, Arms

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• Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Heaven, Humans

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• The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  World, Businessman, Goods

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.315, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Selfishness, Needs, Lord

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• Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Oil, Shells, Demand

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• If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

  Scott Anderson

  Hydraulic Fracturing, Causes, Problem

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• In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies, housing, education - anything that's needed. Isn't that amazing? He finally comes up with a domestic agenda - and it's for Iraq. Maybe we could bring that here if it works out.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, People

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• Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

  Robert Grudin

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

  George Washington

  Kindness, Army, Soldier

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• Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Army, Two

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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