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“The mystery of what happened to Easter Island’s civilization has haunted generations of writers and scientists. There are no trees on Easter Island because the Easter Islanders cut them all down. They deforested their island in the building and transportation of those giant stone heads. In the process of deforesting the island, they also started a downward spiral that drove their civilization to collapse. Easter Island serves as an object lesson for the interaction between an isolated, habitable environment and a civilization using that environment’s resources: they did it to themselves. The parallel to our current situation on Earth seems clear. In his 2007 bestseller, Collapse , anthropologist Jared Diamond unpacked that parallel. His work explored the trajectories of a number of human civilizations that disappeared at the height of their vibrancy and power. Diamond’s examples included the Anasazi of the American southwest, the Maya, and the Norse colony on Greenland. In each case, the civilization overshot the carrying capacity of its environment. Their populations grew as the society became ever more ingenious at extracting resources from its surroundings. Eventually, the limits to growth were hit. A short time after running into those limits, each civilization fell apart. Easter Island was the”

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Book:Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

Source: Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

“When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.”

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Book:Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

Source: Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

“Insanity at its best is believing that we can reinvent the truth. Insanity at its worst is to expend our lives attempting to reinvent the truth that the reinvention always fails. And if there’s one truth that we cannot afford to reinvent, it’s the truth that our society is filled with the best and worst of both.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“He thought, I haven't got much longer before some sort of collapse. He could not think if this would be a collapse of mind or of body. Mind and body seemed utterly fused now in cold aching pain, and darkness.”

Pain Suffering Darkness Collapse Iris Murdoch The Nice And The Good

Book:The Nice and the Good

Source: The Nice and the Good

“it’s collapsing one way or the other. We know that it is, the system is shutting down one way or the other. One way is that ecological disaster causes it to collapse in a chaotic way. Right? And the other way is that we shut it down in an organized fashion, which is what can happen if we mass mobilize. (Interview with Truthout)”

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Author:Bree Newsome Bass

“One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the capacity to listen.”

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Book:Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

Source: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

“Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.”

Fear Sacred Activism Collapse

Book:Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

Source: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

“Severe pain makes this weak body collapse, But it never breaks one soul. While this human flesh enters a grave, The soul ascends to thy Kingdom of thy Lord.”

Soul Pain Heaven Lord Weak Flesh Collapse Severe Grave Ascends

Author:Bradley B. Dalina

“No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.”

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Author:Giorgio Napolitano

“Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.”

World Running Weight Gas Our World Collapse Ecosystems

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.”

Ifs Fiction Fantasy Raises Science Fiction Debt Collapse Ceilings Debt Ceiling

Author:Mike Lee

“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.”

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Author:Nicos Anastasiades

“As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.”

Climate Species Zone Destroying Collapse Shifting Ecosystems

Author:James Hansen

“The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.”

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Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.”

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.”

World May Persons Important Money Subjects Civilization Intellectual Understood Collapse Defects Monetary New World Order

Author:Robert W. Hemphill

“For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.”

Men Has Beens Made Form Used He Man Demand Fundamentals Sells Dues Chiefs Capitalist Collapse Falsehood Consumerism Considering Potatoes Heresy Fallacy Overconsumption

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.”

World Happens Space Views Objects Stillness Collapse Viewers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.”

Ifs Lasts Form Work Existence Collapse Incessantly

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.”

Men Ideas Artist Universe Speed Collapse Sublime

Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.”

Doe Whole Peace Arise Honey Collapse Bees International Relations Making Peace Discord Leaks Hives

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.”

People Democracy Fate Election Russia Despite Posts Communist Soviet Collapse Ambiguity Ambiguous Personal Freedom

Author:Richard Lugar

“When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair”

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Author:George Osborne

“I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.”

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Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

“I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.”

Bones Collapse Severe Osteoporosis

Author:Joan Kirner

“If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.”

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Book:Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

Source: Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.”

Ifs World Way Needs Mean Spiritual Spirit House Heaven Accepting Moral Duty Foundation Prepared Affair Settling Cracks Spiritual Life Collapse Be Prepared Civics Inner Life

Book:Heaven and hell

Source: Heaven and hell

“The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it’s body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.”

Body Light Stars Pieces Materials Mass Speed Fascinating Collapse Shattered Speed Of Light

Author:Kelly Easton

“All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.”

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Book:My Remarkable Uncle

Source: My Remarkable Uncle

“To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.”

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Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.”

Ifs Believe Dies Fall Universe Black Mathematics Rings Holes Collapse Hitting Black Hole Follow Through

Author:Michio Kaku

“Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.”

Painting Foundation Drawing Collapse

Author:Ken Danby

Thinking Way Persons Artist Passion Emotion Concepts Finished Enthusiasm Collapse Masterpiece Exhaustion Great Passion

Author:Richard Estes

“The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.”

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Author:Steve Jurvetson

“Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.”

Way Christianity Negative Contradiction Collapse Packages Describing Agnosticism Props Utterance

Author:George H. Smith

“The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.”

Social Policy Army Structure Surprise Speed Makers Collapse Bureaucracy Social Structure Policy Makers

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.”

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Author:Simon Hoggart

“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.”

Ifs Made Said Whole Youth Civilization Zone Collapse Appointments Edifice Perdition Portents

Author:Guy Debord

“In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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