Resources Quotes
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Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system.
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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.
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People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.
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Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
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Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
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Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.
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I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything.
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We took more resources into the plan than we probably needed to. As we go forward, we'll probably pull that out.
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Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.
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Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.
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The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.
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Many of the cannabis producers are very cash rich. They've got the resources to pay a very good wage.
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If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
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It's implausible because I was an auxiliary bishop and I had no access to money or - no access to significant resources, it's implausible because, of course, the attempt to bribe someone is criminal.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
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Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
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Like a gigantic pump, the German Reich sucked in Europe's resources and working population.
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You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
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We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.
