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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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. ↗

— Robert McChesney

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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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