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• To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

  Walt Disney

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Scarcity, Waste, Resources

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208

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• Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Grows, Angry

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Soap

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

  Leo Kennedy

  Use It Or Lose It, Trying, Way

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• I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Games, Overcoming

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Design, Construction, Given

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• Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

  Pat Condell

  Past, Thinking, Growth

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• If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

  Jack Welch

  Team, People, Add

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

  Owen Feltham

  Charity, Courtesy, Alms

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• Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

  Aesop

  Needs, May, Today

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

  Publilius Syrus

  Laughing, Sound, Trumpets

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• When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

  Shaun White

  Giving, Stuff, Sponsors

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• Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loyalty, Care, Jehovah

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• The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Purpose, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

  Robert Winston

  School, Engineering, People

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• If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

  Andrew Young

  Gun, Men, Years

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• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

  Loretta Young

  Struggle, Average, Giving

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• As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

  Loretta Young

  Jobs, Actresses, Criticize

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• O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

  James M. Cain

  Dog, Beer, Rivers

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• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Technology, Night

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Healthy, Lovable

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.214, Penguin UK

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