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“Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'”

Believe Book Self Helping Reality Missing Self Help Trade Bliss Collapse Advise Believe You Can Follow Your Bliss Trade Offs Self Help Books Help Book

Author:Warren Farrell

“It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.”

Kind Moments Spiritual Spirit Church My Own Watches Including Ironic Collapse Sections Modernity

Book:Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea

Source: Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea

“I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.”

Believe Looks May Lasts Fall Games I Believe Havens Holy Europe I Believe In Secure Believe In God Collapse Falling Apart I Believe In God

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.”

World Problem Age Technology Media Internet Authority Endless Narrative Distraction Collapse Linked Blogs Breakdown Reactionaries Hyper New Media

Author:David L. Ulin

“The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.”

Way Should Light Enlightenment Theology Ideology Collapse Naturalism Rationalism

Book:Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Source: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?”

“If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.”

Ifs Men Years Walks Rich Illusion Collapse Rich Man Profitability Wreckage

Author:Paul Krugman

“Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.”

Mind Believe Persons Doe I Can Problem Body Found Impossible Evidence Machines Philosopher Your Body Ghost Contemporary Witness Collapse Dogma Premises Inadequate Pretension Inference

Book:The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.”

“Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.”

Might Wanted Order Social Behavior Collapse Social Order Commoners

Author:Robert Silverberg

“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”

Government Policy Greed Regulation Collapse Banking Government Regulation Government Policy Bad Government

Author:Nigel Farage

“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.”

“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

Ifs Light Answers Middle Expression Excellence Worthy Contradiction Collapse

Author:Barry Lopez

“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].”

People States Party Corruption China Republic Communist Collapse Downfall Communist Party

Author:Xi Jinping

“I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.”

People Writing Years Important Book Ideas Would Be America Hate President Issues Plans Security Planning Tonight Reviews Good Ideas Collapse Thread Topics Best Laid Plans

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless onlookers, let them feel the scourge of avenging mankind .... Whoever cries about having lost the Nazi system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as a lunatic.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Lost Mankind Cry Claims Socialism Treated Collapse Nazi Lunatic Scourge Insolence Avenging Lackeys

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.”

“Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.”

Industry Built Rounds Excuse Collapse Destined Compelled Grievance Mindless Edifice Carousels

Author:Ilana Mercer

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”

“Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.”

Matter Hands Agreement Collapse

Author:George P. Bush

“Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.”

Littles Sound Gone Pressure Speed Bombs Collapse Atomic Bomb Hull

Author:Graham Hawkes

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.”

Ifs Want Believe Life Is House Atheism Positive Atheism Cards Remove Collapse Fundamentalist House Of Cards

Author:Morris Sullivan

“I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.”

World Way Persons Running Action Wanted Fit Healthy Prove Breaths Collapse Healthy Person

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?”

Thinking World Kind I Can Ends Can Do Painting Prove Concerned Structure Collapse End Of The World I Can Do This

Author:Frank Stella

“After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.”

Lasts University Expensive Department Soviet Collapse Marxism Korea Pathetic Cuba North Korea Relics Anachronism American Universities

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”

Should Fame Ruins Collapse Wretched Pillars

Author:Juvenal

“We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.”

Age Success Race Produce Strive Collapse

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.”

Ifs Economic Economics Structure Collapse

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.”

Made Two Novel Mystery Civilization England British Tea Contribution Empires Ritual Historian Afternoon Collapse Detectives British Empire Invaluable Mystery Novels

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.”

World Empty Nine Collapse Rumor Scandalous Bladder

Author:Horace Greeley

“The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Energy Deals Plans Emotional Collapse Organisms Atrophy Emotional Life

Book:The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven

Source: The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven

“Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.”

Time Collapse Erratic Accordions

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.”

Ifs Needs Looks Done Problem Principles Car Television Weapons Nuclear Keep Going Collapse Pollution Nuclear Weapons Sooner Or Later Consumerism Steel Expanding Premises

Author:Dora Russell

“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.”

Men Spiritual Fall Jesus Sin Grace Blood Higher Blessing Authority Depth Deeper Backgrounds Height Dependent Collapse Grace Of God Publicity Cleansing Staggering Pinnacle Blood Of Jesus

Author:Alan Redpath

“If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.”

Ifs Crazy Buddhism Collapse Psychotic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.”

Arms Climate Change Developing Sand Collapse Toes Veins Junkie

Author:Al Gore

“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

World Running Purpose Support Achieve Paper Eternal Crosses Tasks Weight Bridges Wicked Iron Righteous Collapse

Book:The World to Come: A Novel

Source: The World to Come: A Novel

“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”

Defeat Collapse Mediocre

Author:Martin Firrell

“When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!”

Ifs Want Felt Heard Air Blood Shots Collapse Veins Frozen Lungs

Book:Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”

Giving Mind Long Doe Lying Giving Up Illusion Deception Assumption Collapse Layers Idle Restless

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.”

Has Beens Good Things Forgotten Collapse Fierce Prevailing Bailouts

Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin

“The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.”

Problem Bigs Faces Crisis Cooking Conclusion Diets Collapse Public Health American Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.”

Ifs Humans Belief Causes Understanding Civilization Conflict Empathy Dues Rational Collapse Human Civilization

Author:Chris Kluwe

“If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).”

Ifs Doe Existence Moral Bases Fallen Acquire Stable Collapse Assured Civilisation Morale

Author:African Spir

“Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.”

Easy Comfort Collapse Prelude Backsliding

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

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