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• The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Government, Levels

  "Buchanan: 'Barack Obama Is a Drug Dealer of Welfare'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

  Muhammad Ali

  Responsibility, People, Special

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 06, 2014

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• You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, World, Courageous

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• The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

  Thomas Paine

  Arms, Lasts, Conservative

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.33

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

  David Daiches

  Determination, Drinking, Men

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• Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity

  William Hunter

  Creativity, Organization, Two

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• The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.

  Larry Allen

  Decision, Serious, Looks

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• Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Management, Economic

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• Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

  Wallace Carothers

  Mother, Earth, Population

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• He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

  Jared Leto

  Simple, Way, Innocence

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• I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

  Alvin Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Effort

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• There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Love, Teacher, Hate

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• If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, America, Doe

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.143, Beacon Press

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• What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

  Tom Hicks

  Team, Past, Use

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• I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Looks, Way, Facts

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.

  Richard Heinberg

  Competition, Environmental, Energy

  Richard Heinberg (2003). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, New Society Pub

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• And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

  Simon Raven

  Trust, Patience, Skills

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

  Herb Kawainui Kane

  Differences, People, Citizenship

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• Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Citizens, Information, Sometimes

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• From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Mystery, Endless

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need. If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.

  Bernie Siegel

  God, Nice, Independent

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• How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Use, Want

  Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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