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Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

War, Years, Pestilence

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The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

George C. Marshall

Military, Fall, Army

Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.

Murray Rothbard

Priorities, Political, Mind

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When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.

Lindsey Graham

Party, Thinking, Broken

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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

Julia Gillard

Jobs, Moving, Writing

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As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

Thomas Sowell

Shoes, Waiting, Economist

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Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

Russell M. Nelson

Spiritual, Fall, People

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One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

Robertson Davies

Summer, Teacher, School

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There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

Bjorn Lomborg

Mean, Cutting, Carbon Emissions

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.

Al Gore

Drinking, People, Water

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The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.

Curtis Bean Dall

New York, Order, Nwo

"Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.

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All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying is that the world needs you to do this, because there is a real shortage of people willing to kneel wherever they are and recognize the holiness holding its sometimes bony, often tender, always life-giving hand above their heads. That we are able to bless one another at all is evidence that we have been blessed, whether we can remember when or not. That we are willing to bless one another is miracle enough to stagger the very stars.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Stars, Real, Blessed

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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Real, Interesting, Roles

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Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheist, Views, Virtue

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"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

Jonathon Porritt

Business, Believe, Recovery

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As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Neal A. Maxwell

Home, Parent, Police

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The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

Michel Chossudovsky

Century, Somalia, Results

"The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

Nicholas Stern

People, Water, Suffering

"The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

Scott Belsky

Business, Discipline, Visionaries

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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.

Steven Wilson

Friendship, Children, Mistake

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Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

Vandana Shiva

Two, Water, Earth

Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.1, Pluto Press

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Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

Zainab Salbi

War, Home, School

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Bill Gates

Technology, Challenges, Rewards

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For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage
of arguments by which to support it.

Leszek Kolakowski

Believe, Support, Doctrine

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From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.

Robert Prechter

Government, Pyramids, Political

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