#scarcity

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#masters #mind #old #scarcity #their

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#collector #enjoyable #gives #itself #makes

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. ↗

— Adam Smith

#common #complaint #more #scarcity #than

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#all things #away #give #i #i think

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death. ↗

— Saša Stanišić

#people #scarcity #death

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#men #scarcity #schwartz #the-commoner #love

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#lobsters #scarcity #trivia #diet

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appears #buffalo #country #mr #penetrated

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically