Crisis Quotes
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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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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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It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.
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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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As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
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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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It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.
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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
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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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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
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Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
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I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
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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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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
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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 it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant 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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The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.
