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• The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce knows, but its power will arise and the Circle will close.

  Kerstin Gier

  Men, Circles, Ravens

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.391, Macmillan

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• To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.8, Basic Books

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• All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Journey, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.19, Indiana University Press

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• When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Survival, Scarcity, Slavery

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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• Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

  Isaac Marion

  Winter, Transition, Lasts

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Art, Mean, Sleep

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• So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

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• - the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

  Thomas Hardy

  Girl, Men, Sensitive

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.190, e-artnow

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• For still in mutual sufferance lies
  The secret of true living;
  Love scarce is love that never knows
  The sweetness of forgiving.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Forgiveness, Lying, Secret

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.331

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• What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, Kingdoms, Economic

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

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• To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

  Charles Lamb

  Beauty, Sports, Pain

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Night, Sloth, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.6

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• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Signatures

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Joseph Addison (1827). “A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons”, p.236

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• An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

  Henry Paulson

  Financial, Prosperity, Resources

  "Bankers & Brokers Have Learned Nothing From the Current Crisis" by Joseph L. Shaefer, seekingalpha.com. May 13, 2009.

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Sleep, Long

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• Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hurt, Truth, World

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• We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Titles, Different, Body

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Creating, Marketing

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• In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, World, Globalization

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Men, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.273, Рипол Классик

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