Quotes About Resources

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Nothing, not even a horse-breeding establishment, eats cash like a ship, and none gobbles it more greedily than a trireme.

Capitalism has to transform plenitude into scarcity, because it cannot endure its own abundance.

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Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.

Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy.

O ideal, e o que desejamos para todos os seres humanos, é que eles vivam em paz, em harmonia, num planeta que tenha recursos suficientes para satisfazer as necessidades básicas de todos.

L'excès de récompenses et de punitions montre que le commandement est au bout de ses ressources, et dans une grande détresse.

Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single PICUL of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.

When doing battle, seek a quick victory. A protracted battle will blunt weapons and dampen ardor. If troops lay siege to a walled city, their strength will be exhausted. If the army is exposed to a prolonged campaign, the nation's resources will not suffice.4 When weapons are blunted and ardor dampened, strength exhausted and resources depleted, the neighboring rulers will take advantage of these complications.5

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

When I initially heard a description of the search area and the scenario, I was certain this would be a wasted effort. I suspected there was very little we could do, given the huge size of the search area, rough terrain, terrible weather, age of the track (around 52 hours old), and the lack of resources. Clearly, I was wrong. I underestimated the ability of a trained SAR dog. – Deb Tirmenstein

more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline.

Money has always been the primary language of power.

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.

We could power a city with this energy, but it'd be a waste.

This lack of social capital puts enormous strain on working-class and poverty-stricken parents because they not only don't know where to turn for help but also can't afford it when they do.

That's why taking care of yourself is important: your partner doesn't have endless resources to support you, and you need to be able to give something back to the relationship.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

Joyce llevó a la prosa de ficción la precisión y la riqueza de recursos retóricos de la poesía. Supo, como había sabido Flaubert, que la poesía es lo que rescata y eleva el lenguaje de la novela.