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The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

George Leonard
Order, Long, Scarcity
George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Frank Herbert
Oil, Water, Scarcity
"Dune Genesis". Essay in "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 72, July 1980.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

Frances Moore Lappé
Scarcity, Limits, Vulnerable
Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

E. F. Schumacher
Land, Scarcity, Answers

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Barbara Kingsolver
Pie, People, Scarcity
"A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along.

Astra Taylor
Scarcity, Care, Want
Source: therumpus.net

Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Anna Lappe
Democracy, Scarcity, Hunger

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.

Adam Brody
Nice, Directors, Scarcity
"Adam Brody's Lack Of Pretense". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2014.

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