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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.


Lydia M. Child


#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.


Denis Diderot


#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.


Abraham Lincoln


#found #litigation #man #never #scarcely

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.


David Ricardo


#contribute #could #destitute #exchangeable #exchangeable value

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.


Dana Rohrabacher


#charities #children #directly #donors #going

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.


Robert Half


#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.


Sam Walton


#scarce #vision

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.


Brandon Andress


#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies