supplying

Noun

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of Supply

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. William Stanley Jevons

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. David Foster Wallace

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Cicero

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. Florence Nightingale

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is. Nicola Cabibbo

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