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"Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life"
"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it."
"It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure."
"It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you."
"The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth."
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"It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness ."
"The most precious resource we have is time."
"It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference."
"We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations."
"Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority."
"You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past."
"You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness ."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect."
"There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified."
"I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many."
"People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources."
"Time is the scarcest resource."
"Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective."
"Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life."
"You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution."
"Children are our greatest untapped resource."
"My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future."
"The difference isn't resources, it's attitude."
"Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us."
