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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
What is a fair way to structure our economy? To handle those who did not come to America legally? To distribute scarce public resources and benefits?
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
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.'
Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
I died for Beauty--but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.
Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush.
Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.
It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.
You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.
