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Source: Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews

“Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.”

“Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.”

Enough Force Stress Contribution Trust In God Collapse Bankruptcy

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Students Arms Subtle Poetry Is Ducks Collapse Avoiding Jane Ingenious Blake Austen Milton Literary Art

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.”

Left Chance Alive Capitalism Garden Collapse Banking Machinery Staying Alive Banking System

Author:Margaret Drabble

“Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.”

Ifs Has Beens Age Chance Stage Careful Abandon Collapse Good Chance

Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”

Lasts Sleep Struggle Heard Economic Revolution Demand Judgment Victim Soldier Arise Curse Awake Collapse Crash Corpses Loaded Accounting Proletariat Fanfare Economic Collapse

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.”

War Process Leader Moral Greater Blood Land Horror Standards Hundred Terror Israel Terrorism Collapse Soaking

Author:David Frum

“Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.”

Men Made Position Difficulty Males Gender Collapse Primitive Ingenuity

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.”

Ifs World Want Seems Dating Collapse Dating Someone

Author:Steve Carell

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.”

Important Reason Belief Party Ideals Unions Communist Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Communist Party

Author:Xi Jinping

“The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.”

Country Wanted Force Iraq Regimes Collapse Sovereign Saddam

Author:Ahmed Chalabi

“British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.”

Three Hours Lines Fans British Miles Collapse Exceptional

Author:Craig Charles

“Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.”

Reason Political Zone Division Collapse Continents Euro

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Country Economic Consequence Chaos Germany Abandon Collapse Threatening Spain Wrath Greece Triggers Neighbour Euro

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”

Ifs Long Next Exercise One Day Paper Sitting Bounds Disappear Passing Passings Collapse Papers Long Life 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

“After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.”

World War Majors War Of The Worlds World War Ii Collapse World War I Estates

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.”

Made Country Worry Worst Europe Responsible Crisis Financial Wave Currents Officials Germany Collapse Banking Remarks Skeptical Provoked Austria Regulators Banking Crisis

Author:Martin Walker

“With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.”

May Evolution Species Engineering Collapse Advent Genetic Engineering

Author:Dee Hock

“No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.”

Ifs Age Remember Political Turns Force President Dark Failing Advice Military Movement Spring Vote Regions President Obama Collapse Dark Ages Military Force Arab Spring

Author:Sebastian Junger

“The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.”

Events Russia Collapse Great Events

Book:History of the World War for Human Rights

Source: History of the World War for Human Rights

“What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon 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.”

People Ifs Men Want Humans Real Seems Individual Quality Greatness Produce Depends Civilization Intelligence Loyalty Command Chains Urges Collapse Commerce Organisation Chain Of Command

Author:Frank Herbert

“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.”

“The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.”

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