Crisis Quotes
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Instead of acting to address this developing crisis, California state lawmakers are just days away from passing legislation to ban the best rodent-control tools and methods available and would require use of less effective, so-called `green alternatives, its madness.
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In times of crisis, people overestimate what will be required.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge of crisis, "falling forward" through growth, but then responding often successfully to the problems created. What we can hope for is that with a somewhat more controlled level of growth, and with longer-term preparations for change, we can keep responding to the inevitable smaller crises, as they arise, and continue to postpone until later and later the, perhaps ultimately inevitable, end of our civilization.
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
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When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
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The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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The crisis in the pensions budget is dramatic, ... There should be no taboos about discussing longer working lives and increasing both actual and legal retirement ages.
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With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.
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I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
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In Greece much has been accomplished because of the common effort of all. But still much remains to be done in order to deal with our national issues, to overcome the multifaceted crisis of today, and to safeguard the place that belongs to us . . .
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My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.
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That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.
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At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
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A crisis + time = humor.
