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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Consumption Finite Growth Impossibility Infinite Material World

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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

~Eddie Vedder

Topics: Amount Book Chapters Deal Denial Each End Every Figure Finite How Know Knowing Left Living Many Only Out Planet Reality Sometimes Story Time Us Way Will You Your

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The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

~Edward Bryant

Topics: Become Finite Future Indefinite Longer Me Precious Time Very

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The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

~Edward Burtynsky

Topics: Balance Bigger Billion Blew Century Delicate Destroying Does Finite How Humans Just Manage Mark Members Next Nine Planet Population Process Question Resources Rogue Seven Species Survive Through To Survive Way Whose Without

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The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

~Eliyahu Goldratt

Topics: Cost Finite Get Only Problem Reduction Strategy The Problem With Zero

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In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Christ Divine Finite God His Human Infinite Man Mission Reconcile Unite United

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It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Alternatives Atmosphere Better Buried Burning Co2 Coal Find Finite God How Idea Keep Knows Many Meantime Must Our Out Plants Power Put Resource Run Sooner Then Though Tons Too Underground Until Used Wait

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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Fail Finite Infinite Venture

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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

~Eric Liu

Topics: About Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Arguing Cal Colleges Duke End Feed Finite Ignoring In The End Like Pipeline Pool Princeton Selective Size While

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I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

~Eric Mccormack

Topics: Before Characters Finite Gay Guest Had Many Played Plays Shows Tv Tv Shows Were

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