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“One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.”

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.”

Giving Periods Giving Up Finals Investing Financial Driven Massive Bubbles Decline Collapse Panic Outsiders Crash Distress Sucker Hanging On Insiders

Author:Charles P. Kindleberger

“People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.”

People Heart Brain Regret Unions Russia Soviet Collapse Soviet Union

Author:Vladimir Putin

“If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Areas Capacity Lifetime Collapse Ecological Habitat Food Service

Author:Dan Barber

“I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.”

Men Helping Shows Young Sound Comedy Work Out One Man Regimes Collapse Cliche Exhausting Maniacs Stand Up Comedy

Author:Robert Klein

“I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.”

Spiritual India England Missionary Collapse

Author:William Carey

“There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.”

Littles Country Facts Moving Form Wealth Class Middle Incredibles Income Inequality Discussion Middle Class Collapse Income Inequality Wealth Inequality

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.”

People World Wells Millions Lows Labor Essence Income Educated Communism Collapse Well Educated Low Income

Author:Milton Friedman

“Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.”

Should Children Doe Has Beens Left Sides Cutting Blood Ought Safety Cease Certainty Strings Collapse Cords Navel Uterus Placenta

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.”

Ifs Persons Art Poetry Happened Effects Disappear Collapse

Author:Paul Valery

“The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”

World Necks Collapse Obstinacy

Author:St. Jerome

“In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was atime you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.”

Source: Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”

People Want War Real Poetry Movement Poet Wind Travel Connections Museums Collapse Buttons Vietnam War Visiting Unicorn Collision Seedlings

Author:Marge Piercy

“You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.”

“There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is that two different theories that are too powerful must necessarily contradict each other.”

Two Different Science Powerful Theory Mathematics Empires Collapse Maxims Analog

Author:Saharon Shelah

“There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.”

Film Natural Financial Mood Insecurity Collapse Fertile Noir Financial System Film Noir Fertile Ground

Author:Werner Herzog

“In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.”

New York Laziness Collapse

Author:Mason Cooley

“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.”

Source: Minority Report

“Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.”

Whole Would Be Imagine Republican Elements Democratic Stupidity Candidates Voters Collapse Dumbbells

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.”

Should Home Might Strong Nations Leadership Responsibility Influence Wind Communism Flags Collapse Cautious Profile Great Nations Be Cautious

Author:Ronald Reagan

“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.”

“Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.”

Individual Force Opinion Institutions Atmosphere Atoms Collapse Public Opinion

Book:The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

“The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode”

“If the American people had known the truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaida terrorist attack from the get-go - and yet lied and covered this fact up - Mitt Romney might very well be president. These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war - and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.”

“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.”

“So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.”

Reason Europe France Britain Empires Collapse Spain Furniture Turkeys Cupboards Hungarians Ottomans Ottoman Empire

Author:Eddie Izzard

“The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”

Writing Years Littles Sometimes Hard Imagination Dark Too Much Tree Skins Fruit Dear Spots Brown Warning Collapse Crops Snowflake Attics Trays Fruit Trees

Author:Julian Barnes

“If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.”

Ifs World Materials Industry Tomorrow Chinese Collapse Raw Materials

Author:Yusuf Hamied

“I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.”

Thinking Country Seeing Politician Absolutes Structure Males Collapse Sexist

Author:Eve Ensler

“If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive. For the director, that addiction will come from the love and trust he gets from the "orchestra", him being the conductor. That's why many directors fall in love with their leading lady/man: having someone say "how do you want me to be" is incredible.”

“It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.”

Real Done Government Decision Trouble Percent Increase Embrace Dollars Climate Climate Change Oil Dependent Collapse Grain Corn Subsidies Tariffs Ethanol Oil Price Biofuels

Author:Michael Pollan

“I'm a big believer in the system, but I just don't think we follow our own system and laws very well. I think ultimately we'll see the system collapse. Because no system has ever stayed around forever.”

Thinking Wells Bigs Law Forever Believer Collapse

Author:Matt Lindland

“Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.”

Ifs Needs Mean Doe Would Be School Jobs Economy Taxes Percent Doctors Everyday Nine Clothings Collapse Ninety Consumed Global Economy Ninety Nine Hairdresser Everyday Things

Author:Karl-Johan Persson

“God is like the ocean and we're like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead.”

Ifs Trying Water Source Ocean Capable Glasses Collapse

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

Made Enough Social Space Travel Made It Best Things Elsewhere Collapse Far Away Funny Travel Crowded Space Travel Crowded Places

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.”

Ifs War Suffering Capacity Warrior Collapse Offensive Unwanted

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Thinking Looks Has Beens War Whole Stories Earth Waiting Cold Unions Ideology Soviet Collapse Cold War Soviet Union Clash Shattering

Author:Steven Knight

“We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.”

World Has Beens Two Unions China Our Time Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Contributors

Author:Milton Friedman

“The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole, following freer economic policies. Most of these states have freer government and less restrictions on trade.”

Country States Whole Government Results Economic Policy Trade Unions Following Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Restriction Risen Economic Policy

Author:Milton Friedman

“Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.”

Humans Humor Funny Law Universe Courses Failing Function Down And Endeavor Collapse Slow Down Gigs Pointless Rendering Entropy Slowing Of Context Thermal

Author:Bill Bailey

“Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.”

Way Looks Diversity Institutions Financial Finished Logical Collapse Currency Predictable Monetary Ecosystems Monetary System Financial Institutions

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.”

Trying Book Reason Action Christ Realizing Business Company Influence Clothes Clean Environmental Sake Customers Right Thing Collapse More Money Recommendations Patagonia

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.”

“You will learn that at higher levels of energy, our fields of prayer act very quickly to bring us exactly what we expect. If we fear, it brings to us what we fear. If we hate, it brings us more of what we hate. Thankfully when we go into these negative expectations, our prayer-fields collapse rather quickly because we lose our connection with the divine and are no longer outflowing love. But a fear expectation can still be powerful. That is why you must monitor your expectations carefully and set your field consciously.”

Ifs Stills Hate Energy Loses Prayer Levels Powerful Fields Divine Higher Expectations Negative Connections Collapse Our Prayers Higher Level

Author:James Redfield

“As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.”

States Heaven Growth Limits Weight Collapse Prosperous Edifice

Book:Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars

Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars

“We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.”

Mean Decision Balance Tough Financial Budgets Collapse Verge Tough Decisions Financial Collapse

Author:Gary Johnson

“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.”

World Years War Civilization War Of The Worlds Tragic Collapse World History

Author:Arthur Henderson

“It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.”

Thinking May Book Ends Seems Today Universe Fun Week Consequence Library Collapse Library Books Overdue Just For Fun

Author:Gareth Roberts

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