"Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves."

-- Julian Simon

#Running Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Weâ€™re still getting a lot of the popular conception thatâ€™s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future of medicine is going to be broadly genetic is a very real danger.”
“If you want to be noticed, dress the part.”
“I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.”
“Having money is a way of being free of money.”
“I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.”

Source : "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.
“We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.”

Source : 1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.
“There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.”
“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.”

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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