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• Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Xenophobia, Mean, Land

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

  Paul Theroux

  Fall, Realizing, Where You Are

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• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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• Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Thinking, Hair

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• Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

  Donald Tusk

  Country, Natural, Poland

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• Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

  Mark Udall

  Responsibility, Water, Drink

  "Celebrating Earth Day" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.

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• The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

  Stewart Udall

  Balance, Limited Resources, Use

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• President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

  Tom Vilsack

  Commitment, Garden, Land

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• To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

  Tom Vilsack

  Moving, Epidemics, Effort

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Humanity, Care

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.310, New Press, The

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• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Allen West

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Winning, Way

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

  Charles E. Wilson

  People, Canada, Spirit

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• Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

  Ron Wyden

  Technology, Phones, Cells

  "Congress Should Resolve Location Tracking Questions" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

  Martin Yan

  People, Giving, Trying

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• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, Fighting, Order

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• Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.

  Julian Baggini

  Land, Skills, People

  "Why business needs to concentrate on value - not just profit" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

  Helen Fisher

  Guy, Share, Willing

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• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  Abdul Kalam

  Moving, Resilience, Needs

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• In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

  Stephen Lang

  Real, Skills, Imagination

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• The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Worry, Focus

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• The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giving, Tasks, Needs

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• One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Race

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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• If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

  John Burroughs

  Book, Names, Three

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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