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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. -- Thomas Love Peacock
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. -- Adam Smith
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. -- Samuel Johnson
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. -- Maya Angelou
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. -- Thomas A. Edison
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. -- Steven Levitt
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. -- Wayne Dyer
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
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. -- Thomas Sowell
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
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 a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. -- John Berger
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. -- David Ricardo
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
Money is a way of creating scarcity. -- Peter Coyote
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. -- Will Oldham
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. -- Sharon Stone
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. -- Edmund Burke
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
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. -- A. S. W. Rosenbach
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. -- Ravi Zacharias
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
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
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
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control. -- David Icke
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance. -- Jason Silva
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence. -- Gary Zukav
Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination! -- Walter E. Williams
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. -- Thomas Fuller
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. -- Seth Godin
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. -- Dave Ramsey
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize. -- Kurt Bills
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. -- Chris Anderson
There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways. -- Justin Rosenstein
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy. -- Martha Beck
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form. -- Neil Postman
Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal. -- Kurt Bills
In abundance prepare for scarcity. -- Mencius
Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity. -- George Gilder
Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy. -- Toba Beta
The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power. -- Jim Stanford
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital. -- John Maynard Keynes
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. -- James Clavell
I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. -- Michel de Montaigne
that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. -- Lily Gardner
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. -- Adam Gopnik
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity. -- Margaret Halsey
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. -- Alan Cohen
I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within. -- Rachel Platten
Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies. -- Jennifer Ritchie Payette
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. -- Frank Herbert
It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity. -- Seth Godin
Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity. -- Shakti Gawain
In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance. -- Shantideva
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. -- Mohsin Hamid
The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have. -- Wayne Dyer
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. -- Walter Brueggemann
The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time. -- Matt Perman
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. -- Brigham Young
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. -- Jonathan Swift
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. -- William Henry Ashley
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. -- Mathis Wackernagel
The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance -- Toby Hemenway
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. -- Charles Eisenstein
The people who donâ??t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. -- Cheryl Strayed
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. -- Mark Kingwell
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. -- John Maynard Keynes
I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.I enjoy the times of prosperity and endure the times of difficulty. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. -- Steven Solomon
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them -- Edmund Burke
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
Something is very, very wrong when people donÂ?t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. -- Vandana Shiva
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
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them. -- David Ricardo
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. -- Walter Brueggemann
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. -- Michael Parenti
As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer. -- Dewitt Jones
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity. -- Isabel Allende
If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity. -- Tony Robbins
A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life. -- Keith B. McMullin
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. -- Anna Lappe
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. -- Marianne Williamson
Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive. -- Melody Beattie
The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity. -- Ludwig von Mises
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. -- Louis O. Kelso
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit. -- Sharif Abdullah
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable. --
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. -- Samuel Johnson
Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity. -- Elie Abel
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. -- Herman E. Daly
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity. -- Steven Pinker
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. -- Clay Shirky
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there. -- Peter Buffett
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. -- Milton Friedman
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems. -- BrenÃ© Brown
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
What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement. -- Ed Miliband
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. -- Mitch Kapor
When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding. -- Seth Godin
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help"¦ -- Mahatma Gandhi

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