Scarcity Quotes
128 quotes by 109 authors
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of…
— John Berger
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
— Truman Capote
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
— Maya Angelou
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God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this…
— Jim Cymbala
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources…
— Milton Friedman
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The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
— Alan Cohen
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The journey to financial freedom starts the MINUTE you decide you were destined for prosperity, not scarcity- for abundance, not lack. Isn't there a part…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
— Stephen Covey
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if…
— Pliny the Elder
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The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.
— Wayne Dyer
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
— Wendell Berry
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We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
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The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.
— Maude Barlow
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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
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Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
— Murray Rothbard
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Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of…
— John Beddington
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
— John Maynard Keynes
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A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
— Kevin Carson
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Money is a way of creating scarcity.
— Peter Coyote
Who Wrote These Scarcity Quotes
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