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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.
My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.
It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.
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.
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
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.
With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.
I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.
I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.
Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.