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• Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

  Herman Kahn

  Military, Thinking, Welfare Programs

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Organization, Peaceful, Use

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• Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

  Christopher Dodd

  Children, Full Potential, Helping

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• A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

  Matthew Lesko

  Knowing, Looks, Bigs

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• One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, People, Boards

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• It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play.

  Richard Louv

  Meaningful, Play, Parent

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• The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.

  Jack Weatherford

  Struggle, People, World

  Jack Weatherford (2009). “The History of Money”, p.246, Crown Business

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• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Nicholas Stern

  Vegetarian Diet, Water, Meat

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Technology, Circles, Full Circle

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• If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

  Dennis Weaver

  War, Support, Energy

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• Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Opportunity, Evil, Absence

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.270, Penguin

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• Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Healthy, Arguing

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.159, Penguin

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Growth

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• It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

  Helmut Jahn

  Long, Goal, Needs

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• The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

  Michael Nesmith

  People, Internet, Economic

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Thinking is the ultimate human resource.  Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill.  No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Skills, Important

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Six Thinking Hats”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mean, Purpose, Investing

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.

  Mancur Olson

  Emotional, Organization, Groups

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

  Randy Alcorn

  Life Is, This Life, Autobiography

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.197, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Faithful, Together

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.517, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jobs, Opportunity, Church

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.377, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Energy, Realizing

  "Let's transform energy — with natural gas". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• 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

  Reality, Choices, Scarcity

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• If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

  Craig Groeschel

  Integrity, Passion, Heart

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