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(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.

Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

From abundance springs satiety.

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

I don't agree that there's an over-abundance of a lack of quality.

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

If you give, you will be blessed.

I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafka's life. In this way it was possible to complete the volume about the early years; and, in my view, nothing substantial is missing from it.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

I live with deer and coyotes. Lyme ticks are a daily concern and mystery, but, yes, what do they mean? I don't know yet. But I'd rather point out the abundance of mystery than pretend to solve it. As if I could solve it! What does a deer mean? Who knows? Everything!

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. "Natural horsemanship" is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.