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• Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!

  Dick Morris

  Jobs, Giving Up, Cutting

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Optimistic, Science, Vision

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• In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

  Gil Kane

  Paper

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Skills, Oil

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Critics

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• Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

  Benjamin Graham

  Suffering, Cotton, Wheat

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter V, Reservoir System and Commodities, p. 72, 1937.

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• We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

  Charles Hummel

  Time, Focus, Priorities

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Voice, America, President

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• There is no shortage of evidence that when we support the fundamental freedoms of women and girls, they are able to realize their full potential to engage in, contribute to and benefit from sustainable development. In doing so, we will all reap the benefits; in our homes, throughout our communities, and across our nations.

  Sam Kutesa

  Girl, Home, Support

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• Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Diversity, Socialism, Best Things

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• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, War, Self

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• Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.

  Fay Weldon

  Baby, Creativity, Night

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• The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

  Tom Peters

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, People

  "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow".

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• A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

  Ray LaHood

  Airports, World, Air Travel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

  Paul Klee

  Rain, Rooms, Wells

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.378, Univ of California Press

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• I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.

  Ray Lewis

  Jobs, Father, Athlete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

  Jay Leno

  Fda, Drug, Attention

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• Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Financial, Mortgage

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

  Pete Wentz

  Train Wrecks, People, Creative

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• The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.

  Kate Warne

  Thinking, Negative, Might

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• We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Law, Suffering

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.293, Routledge

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• There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

  Keri Russell

  Female Role Models, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Reinforcement, Retreat

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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