Famous quotes containing the words number and/or resource:
“While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)