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“My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.”

Bigs Reading Next Business Half Company Weight Entrepreneur Wave Collapse Explosions Entrepreneurial Mania Sluggish Mergers Consolidation

Author:Tom Peters

“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.”

Humans Body Light Eye Care Joy House Voice Hair Universal Plant Meetings Paint Don't Care Flesh Tone Shade Collapse Arrangements Strokes Glimpse Human Body Orientation

Author:David Eagleman

“Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse”

Whole Suffering Social Water Community Air Drink Breathe Destroyed Collapse Protected Social Good

Book:Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

Source: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.”

Collapse Novelty Monotony Cubicles

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.”

Home Felt Scene Silly Collapse

Author:Illeana Douglas

“All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.”

Ifs Today Pain Individual Difficult Achieve Acceptance Tomorrow Mindfulness Tasks Universal Painful Genuine Collapse Torment Diligence

Author:Jean Gebser

“Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.”

People Thinking Regimes Collapse Nihilism

Book:The coming collapse of China

Source: The coming collapse of China

“Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?”

Built Adversity Horrible Trends Collapse Catastrophe

Author:Winston Churchill

“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”

Important Ideas Moving Evolution Conscious Moving Forward Collapse Scenarios Convergence Nonlinear

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.”

Force Nations Causes Building Highest Destroyed Target Collapse Household Imagery Symbolic Icons Manhattan

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.”

Whole Spiritual House Causes Animal Materials Civilization Stones Foundation Experiments Animal Rights Collapse Removal Edifice

Book:Building the Green movement

Source: Building the Green movement

“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.”

Whole Might Fear Authority Intellectual Innovation Threat Deeper Mediocrity Academic Collapse Evoke Edifice

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?”

World Ends Action Attitude Imagine One Day Excited Collapse Hateful Words And Actions

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.”

Whole Problem Together Hours Fire Brother Russia Mexico Locked Collapse Airports Riot Flu Swine Lehman Brothers Swine Flu

Author:Paddy Ashdown

“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.”

People States Truth Is Deserve Possession Collapse Publish

Author:Kurt Eisner

“Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.”

Disease Stress Related Collapse Puddles Stress Related

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.”

Ifs Stills Care Church Prayer Powerful Groups Administration Cells Remove Collapse Preaching Prayer Life

Author:David Yonggi Cho

“For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.”

“There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.”

Lying Weight Triumph Collapse

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.”

Evil Talent Collapse Stink Vaudeville New Talent

Author:George Burns

“Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.”

Knows Writing Order Dies Language Sound Loses Break Records Changed Pages Transformed Collapse Break Through

Book:Made from this earth: an anthology of writings

Source: Made from this earth: an anthology of writings

“The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.”

Ifs Facts Term Economy Economic Position Dancing Credit Surface Germany Collapse Sections Short Term Flourishing Volcanoes

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.”

People Culture Politics Waiting Economy Areas Unions Expected Soviet Collapse Initiative Retreat Soviet Union

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.”

Ifs World Spiritual Core Our World Collapse

Author:Christine Caine

“It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Real Pain Levels Deals Dangerous Deserve Killing Trauma Real Life Collapse Feel Better

Author:Taylor Stevens

“True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.”

Way Government Running Interest Issues Paper Late Rate Bounds Prosperity Appearance Credit Artificial Collapse Expansion Paper Money

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence?”

Hands Faces Values Culture Next Our Lives Generations Embrace Absence Collapse Next Generation

Book:The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

“The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.”

Way Country Whole Government Action Order Standards Gold Court Prison Oppression Customs Collapse Inflation Policemen Coercion Grim Executioners Gold Standard

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up But you gotta search within you And gotta find that inner strength And just pull that shit out of you And get that motivation to not give up And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse.”

Giving Feels Sometimes Matter Faces Motivation Fall Causes Like You Giving Up Weak Tired Flats Inner Strength Your Face Collapse Within You Not Giving Up Just Give Up Quitter

Author:Eminem

“Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.”

Running Grace Certainty Score Collapse Lifelong Steam Prevailing

Book:Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

“Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.”

Painting Collapse

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”

Ifs Humans Individual Quality Greatness Produce Depends Civilization Urges Collapse Organize Chain Of Command

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”

Ifs Should Years Persons Long Doubt Reflection Collapse Discarded Defenseless Probing

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.”

Play Couple Collapse

Author:Patrick Marber

“A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.”

Feelings Christian Christian Life Collapse

Book:Flames of Freedom

Source: Flames of Freedom

“Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?”

Consciousness Empathy Collapse Avert Biosphere

Book:The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

Source: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

“America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.”

Littles Problem America Christianity Too Much Traditional Variety Destructive Collapse Pseudo Slow Motion

Book:Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

Source: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

“Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.”

Christian Religion Prayer Core Collapse

Author:Amy Carmichael

“We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.”

Ifs Bigs Age Earth Mother Environment Planets Bills Collapse Ecology Projection Mother Earth Ecological Save Mother Earth

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.”

Ifs Way Needs Sometimes Whole Problem Government Together Intellectual Solutions Capitalism Greed Climate Change Deny Outcomes Collapse Scaffolding

Author:Naomi Klein

“When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.”

Order Energy Stars Sun Source Mass Heavy Dues Astronomy Radiation Collapse Exhausted Cosmology Contractions Rotation Fission Nuclear Fission

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.”

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.”

Needs Care Law Principles Economy Building Healthy Weight Patient Health Care Seats Drivers Collapse Notable Health Care System

Author:Paul Ryan

“Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats' refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.”

“Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.”

Source: The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength

“The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.”

Ifs Whole Truth Bases Philosophical Mathematics Witty Math Tricks Mathematical Collapse Speculation Departure Calculus Rigour Integral Calculus

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.”

War Felt Too Much Media Handle Vietnam Collapse Overwhelmed Vietnam War Input Proliferation

Author:Richard Hell

“Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse”

Men Mean Force Absence Collapse

Author:William James

“What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.”

Inspirational Courage Ruins Collapse New Life

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.”

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