“There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.”

— Karel Čapek, book The Absolute at Large

The Absolute at Large (1921)

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Czech writer 1890–1938

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 98

“Crazy people are like that. They have unlimited crazy currency. [...] The things they say mean nothing to them, but they mean everything to me.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

The Comeback Kid (2015)

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

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“CEOs need keep an open mind so they can adapt to a rapidly changing world and need to bring an abundant dose of emotional intelligence to the job.”

Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive

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“My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.”

Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States

Academy Award acceptance speech (21 February 2007) http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/gore-wins-hollywood-in-a-landslide/.

“I have needed God every day to defend myself against the abundance of thoughts.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

PV, p. 73; SV1, XIII, p. 559; Jon Bartley Stewart. 2008. Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Philosopher, Littérateur, Dramaturge, and Political Thinker. Museum Tusculanum Press.
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