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• In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Artist, Creative

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

  Gary L. Francione

  Purpose, Use, Justify

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• We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Important, Use

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• I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Selfish, Want, Life Is

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• Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.

  Kim Harrison

  Poor, Indication, Worth It

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• God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Long, Noses

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• Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Earth, Green

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• Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kids, Focus, Mind Blowing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• 3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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• Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

  Zadie Smith

  Want, Sometimes, Illusion

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• If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

  Timothy Keller

  Money Power, Today, Talent

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.59, Penguin

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• ...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Oil, Common Sense, Water

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

  John Green

  Reading, People, Understanding

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• Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

  Alain de Botton

  Desire, May, Littles

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.43, Vintage

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• The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, School, Doe

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Compassion, Light

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• Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

  Mark Batterson

  Giving, Decision, Vision

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• You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, World, Personal Growth

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Purpose for Living”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

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• This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

  Maureen Johnson

  Believe, England, Natural

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• [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Support, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, People

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• In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

  Aldous Huxley

  Time, Race, Numbers

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 113), 1958.

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• The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Being Alone, Solitude, Depth

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.242, Sahitya Akademi

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• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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