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“That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control”

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

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Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.”

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Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.”

Feelings Faces Shoulders Collapse Tempted Botox

Author:Sally Phillips

“This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?”

Ifs World Reality Seems Happens This World Illusion Deeper Hiding Collapse Clue Convincing Hiding Place

Book:The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.”

Giving Persons Courses Truth Is Rain Window Storm Collapse Handy Markers Truth And Love Harbinger

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.”

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Book:The Problem of Method

Source: The Problem of Method

“If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.”

Ifs World Giving May Hard Reason Form Belief Lost Force Loses Our Lives Madness Granted Rely Collapse World And Life Life For Granted

Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.”

Kind Seems Eye Age Records Photographer Print Collapse Decay Hammers Conspirators Burrowing

Author:Jack Kerouac

“The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by fly by night mortgage brokers who had almost zero federal oversight and then the big banks looked over, saw the profit potential and they wanted it bad. So they jumped in and sold millions of these terrible mortgages while the bank regulators just looked the other way.”

“If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.”

People Ifs Ends Country America Dies Courses Hours Half Four Europe Balls Entertainment Welcome Our Country Soccer Collapse Enjoyable Bleachers

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?”

Talking Economic Saving Collapse Savings Economic Collapse

Author:Eugene Mirman

“After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day, marvelous and exhausted and wanting to collapse on the floor in a heap. That's why I can't photograph just anybody, and why it's so hard to photograph people on assignment; it's like going to bed with someone not of my choosing.”

People Ifs Way Feels I Can Hard Might Bed Photograph Collapse Making Love Marvelous Exhausted Assignments

Author:Eva Rubinstein

“Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.”

Form Weight Mere Substance Collapse

Author:Clarence Manion

“...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.”

Inevitable Collapse

Author:Richard Pipes

“Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.”

Earth Father Heaven Abandon Collapse Trusted Trust Yourself Heaven And Earth

Author:Paul of the Cross

“. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the idea of free-markets succeeded first, and then special events catalyzed a complete change of socio-political policy in countries around the world by Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.”

“There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.”

People Ifs Might Loses Situation Leader Team Building Wheels Spokes Collapse Connecting Wagons Rims Hub Wagon Wheels

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock is still worth more than the entire Social Security "trust fund."”

Stills Running Remember Social Grief Security New York Former Employee Fund Collapse Portraits Social Security New York Times Enron Trust Funds

Book:How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

“The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.”

Ifs Might Hero Management Criminals Hills Buying Employee Executives Boss Collapse Beef Sucker Enron Top Management

Author:Ann Coulter

“Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.”

Ifs Hard Done America Turns Air Streets Brother Wall Golf Hey Giants Collapse Monday Free Market Tournaments Bankruptcy Golf Tournaments Lehman Brothers

Author:Amy Poehler

“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”

“How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.”

“The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.”

Sometimes Stupid Laughter My Friends Stupidity Loud Reviews Collapse

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.”

Ifs Needs Hard States Faces Economy Violence Products Source Industry Higher Citizens Drug Corruption Oil Income Dependent Illegal Mexico Collapse Currency Earning Employed Mexican

Author:Charles Bowden

“I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.”

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Author:Nelson DeMille

“I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.”

People Thinking Causes Accepting Moral Position Willing Civilization Okay Arguing Billions Collapse

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.”

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Author:Zephyr Teachout

“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.”

Trying War Happens Knowing Economic Birth Currents Pregnancy Conception Collapse Derivatives Economic Collapse

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.”

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Author:James Vance

“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.”

People Thinking Kind Economic Models Studios Collapse Closing Economic Models

Author:Matthew Specktor

“The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.”

Way Shows Oil Significant Collapse Oil Price

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.”

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Author:Chris Hedges

“I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.”

Knows World Way Humans Winning Natural Human Beings Protect Limits Dignity Institutions Corporations Rebellion Collapse Exploits Natural World Exhaustion

Author:Chris Hedges

“With the decline of American interests in the outcome of this region, there is no glue holding it together. And the countries in this region are invented ... The last guarantor of the region's borders was the United States, and the US has basically said "the hell with it." What you're really having is the collapse of nation-states because they're not nations. They're only states.”

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Author:George Friedman

“In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.”

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Author:Tariq Ali

“Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.”

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Author:Ramez Naam

“Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.”

Way Energy Poverty Planets Climate Climate Change Burning Collapse Carbon Doom Reducing Ecological Usage Horrific Co2

Author:Ramez Naam

“Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.”

“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.”

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.”

Century Tragedy Unions Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Great Tragedy

Author:Vladimir Putin

“After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.”

Ifs Said Productions Oil Collapse Oil Production

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

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