#scarce

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#books #concerning #conducting #found #importance

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

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

#different #discovered #duty #eagerness #evolutions

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #marriage #scarce #value #work

In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,' through which people are subject to computer-monitored house arrest, or granting fuller surveillance and disciplinary powers and technologies to other state agencies, such as welfare and mental health, through 'transcarceration' policies...We need to decrease, not increase, the means by which the state, in its multifarious networks of authority, controls human lives and selectively incapacitates people who, no less than others, have the potential to contribute to the improvement of hte human condition. ↗

— Karlene Faith

#prison #transcarceration #faith

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. ↗

— David Brainerd

#board #english #his #i #poor

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. ↗

— John Donne

#any #enough #hath #man #man hath

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#ahead #assuming #danger #his #increasing