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An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination! — Walter E. Williams

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. — Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. — Truman Capote

It is a precise thing, a scripted act as deliberate as Jo No Mai, each move choreographed, a worship of scarcity. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough... — Brene Brown

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. — Brene Brown

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity. — George Gilder

Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. — Vandana Shiva

It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. — Willa Cather

In abundance prepare for scarcity. — Mencius

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. — Thomas Love Peacock

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit. — Sharif Abdullah

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance. — Shantideva

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. — John Burnham Schwartz

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. — Sharon Stone

Desires stay unaware
of man's fragile existence
authored by scarcity — Suman Pokhrel

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity. — Margaret Halsey

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity. — Tony Robbins

The drop from abundance to scarcity produced a decidedly more positive reaction to the cookies than did constant scarcity. — Robert B. Cialdini

That was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. — Lily Gardner

Life of scarcity teaches creativity. — Jag Randhawa

Money is a way of creating scarcity. — Peter Coyote

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. — Jim Mitchell

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. — Michael Parenti

Earlier scarcity dented the happy disposition of folk, as abundance breeds bitterness today. — Girdhar Joshi

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. — William Henry Ashley

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. — Frank Herbert

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough. — Brene Brown

The Dip creates scarcity; scarcity creates value — Seth Godin

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day. — Donald Miller

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. — Walter Brueggemann

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Farmers ... can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown

Scarcity brings clarity. — James A. Whittaker

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity. — Shakti Gawain

Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions. — Jeffrey Steingarten

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. — Seth Godin

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. — Brigham Young

The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

When scarcity captures the mind, we become more attentive and efficient. — Sendhil Mullainathan

During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's — Douglas E. Richards

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. — Will Oldham

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. — Mark Kingwell

The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. — Cheryl Strayed

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity. — William DeBuys

The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have. — Wayne Dyer

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence. — Gary Zukav

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive. — Melody Beattie

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get. — Angela Merkel

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappe

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow. — Kevin Kelly

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. — Henry Rollins

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. — James Clavell

When you have scarcity, it naturally reinforces greed and leads to more interest, — Ashlee Vance

Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results. — Jeremiah Talamantes

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. — Wayne W. Dyer

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power. — Jim Stanford

Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. — Alan Cohen

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it. — Marty Rubin

As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility ... always another right answer. — Dewitt Jones

But the feeling of scarcity does thrive in shame-prone cultures that are deeply steeped in comparison and fractured by disengagement. — Brene Brown

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. — Thomas A. Edison

Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality. — Wayne W. Dyer

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. — Thomas Fuller

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. — Dave Ramsey

Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes. — Andy Crouch

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes

As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law. — Steven Johnson

It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity. — Isabel Allende

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more — Ashly Lorenzana

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy. — Toba Beta

Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance. — Jason Silva

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. — Adam Gopnik

Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality. — Debasish Mridha

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. — Walter Brueggemann

No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. — Adam Smith

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. — Charles Eisenstein

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. — Steven Levitt

General state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By — George Orwell

There's not enough of anything to go around except people and death. — Sasa Stanisic

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance — Toby Hemenway

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life. — Keith B. McMullin

Space and scarcity give us dignity. And liberty. And thereby beauty. — Edward Abbey

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. — Robert Anton Wilson

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity. — Seth Godin