Scarcity Quotes - Page 2

• Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

  George Gilder

  Time, Quality

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• Cada vez que se despiertan nuestros prejuicios étnicos o nacionales, en tiempos de escasez, durante los desafíos a la autoestima nacional o el nervio, cuando agonizamos acerca de nuestro lugar cósmico disminuido y propósito, o cuando el fanatismo está burbujeando a nuestro alrededor - a continuación, los hábitos de pensamiento familiar de épocas pasadas llegar a los controles.

  Carl Sagan

  Self Esteem, Past, Challenges

  Carl Sagan (2011). "El mundo encantado por los demonios: Science as a Candle in the Dark", p.50, Ballantine Books.

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• I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Giving, Willing

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• It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

  Will Oldham

  Exceso

  "The Pretender". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2009.

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• La pobreza es multidimensional. Va más allá de los ingresos monetarios y se extiende a la educación, la atención sanitaria, la participación política y el avance de la propia cultura y organización social.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Educación, Dinero, Poder

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministerio de Información y Radiodifusión. División de Publicaciones (2004). "Hacia un nuevo mundo: momentos decisivos".

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• You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems.  In scarcity, people will tend to steal.  If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Ethics

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• An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Men, Life Is

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1977). “The desert year”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Dog, Cat, Snow

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Government Welfare, Bread

  'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity' (1800)

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• Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

  Maya Angelou

  Beauty, Girl, Opportunity

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.35

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• For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

  Brené Brown

  Kids, Opposites, Abundance

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• Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Real, Unity, Earth

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• If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Rumor, Lasts, Affirmation

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Arte, Filosofía, Historia

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• El control gubernamental da lugar al fraude, a la supresión de la Verdad, a la intensificación del mercado negro y a la escasez artificial. Sobre todo, desanima al pueblo y le priva de iniciativa, deshace la enseñanza de la autoayuda.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Government, Self

  "Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

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• The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Thinking, Poverty

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.14, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Attention, Use

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Inspirational, Funny, Flower

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.131

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• La destrucción de la salud de los ecosistemas acuáticos y la creciente escasez de agua son, en mi opinión, los problemas medioambientales más acuciantes a los que se enfrenta la humanidad.

  Maude Barlow

  Ecosystems, Water, Environmental

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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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• Los niños muy pequeños se comen sus libros, devorando literalmente su contenido. Esta es una de las razones de la escasez de primeras ediciones de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y otros favoritos de la guardería.

  A. S. W. Rosenbach

  Niños, Libro, Lectura

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• Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

  Cat Cora

  Morning, Children, Three

  "A Recipe for Fighting Child Malnutrition" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Strange, Enjoyable

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• It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

  Seth Godin

  Hurt, Quitting, Human Nature

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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