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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.


John Berger


#before #century #imposed #natural #other

Money is a way of creating scarcity.


Peter Coyote


#money #scarcity #way

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.


Brené Brown


#scarcity #society #stress #vulnerability #courage

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


Jim Mitchell


#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time

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


Adam Smith


#common #complaint #more #scarcity #than

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


John Burnham Schwartz


#men #scarcity #schwartz #the-commoner #love

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.


Bill Bryson


#lobsters #scarcity #trivia #diet

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.


Brian C. O'Connor


#hunter-gathers #information #nature #scarcity #storing

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


#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.


Esther Dyson


#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically






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