Athletics is a luxury.
If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.
Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
You cannot make, my Lord, I fear, a velvet purse of a sow's ear
time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.
I don't see any new coal.
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
My husband is my most valuable resource.
I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need. If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
There is no one that we can afford to throw away.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
