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“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.”

Young Stage Crisis Marketing Quarters Schemes Stages Of Life Life Crisis

Author:Jill Lepore

“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

“We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.”

World Years Has Beens Growth Levels Development Performances India Crisis Trade Currents Destination Trends Recognise Baskets Robust Surpassing

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”

People Way Spiritual Energy Term My Own Focus Crisis Obsession Spiritual Crisis

Author:Jodie Foster

“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Games House Issues Car News Crisis Library Driven Setting Settings Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Graham Nelson

“President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.”

Social President Security Danger Crisis Social Security President Bush Manufacturing Suggesting

Author:Richard Neal

“Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.”

Ifs Action Humanity President Republican Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change Division Rivals Romney

Author:Ron Fournier

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”

Thinking Country School Crisis

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”

“Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.”

Men States Situation Crisis Recognise

Author:Jean Monnet

“The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.”

Knows World May Economy Crisis World Economy

Author:William C. Brown

“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Facts Political Views Cutting Republican Taxes Benefits Crisis Wealthy Health Benefits

Author:John Podhoretz

“During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.”

People Periods Crisis Financial Average Hardship Entering Billionaire Financial Crisis Bailouts

Author:Thomas Frank

“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.”

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Author:Jon Meacham

“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”

People Thinking Has Beens Might Young Careers Crisis Ambitious Hung Might Have Been Premature Misplaced Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.”

Waiting Plans Crisis Come Up

Author:Phil McGraw

“The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.”

Said Political Economy Modern Crisis West Financial Ideology Frightened Pollution They Said Economist Prevailing Financial Crisis Political Economy

Author:James Buchan

“If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.”

Ifs Knows Social Crisis Setting Settings

Author:Bill Nighy

“We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.”

Ends Worst Crisis Eurozone

Author:Francois Hollande

“People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.”

People Want Jobs Political Sides Leader Standards Crisis Saving Damage Banking Savings Political Leaders Banking Crisis

Author:Lucy Powell

“It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.”

Men Made Perfect Knowing Gay Exciting Raises Crisis Extraordinary Evening Halls Solo Gay Men Debut Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Bernadette Peters

“As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Long Country Enough Crisis Saving Greek Agendas Greece

Author:George Papandreou

“The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.”

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Author:Lucas Papademos

“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”

Government Economy Saws Activity Weak Crisis Financial Excuse Restraint Entrepreneurial Financial Crisis

Author:Rob Portman

“I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.”

Acting Identity Crisis Identity Crisis

Author:Matthew Rhys

“2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.”

“I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.”

America Talking Crisis Addresses Healthcare Dental

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!”

Thinking Wells Shows News Crisis Experts Exception Frustrated Cables Get Real Cnn Talk Shows

Author:Howard Stringer

“It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.”

Economic Crisis Burden Economic Crisis

Author:Johann Lamont

“My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.”

Hands Fighting Father Generations Solutions Harder Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change Obvious Fascism

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.”

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Author:Ted Strickland

“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.”

World Firsts Play Rooms Media Events Crisis Iran Living Room Hostage Tehran World Events Hostage Crisis

Author:Chris Terrio

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.”

Political Crisis Greek Lots Of Money Immoral Housing Greece

Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“Crises are challenges, not calamities.”

Challenges Crisis Calamity

Author:Guy Verhofstadt

“I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.”

Believe Today Able Social Pay Security Benefits Crisis Defined Administration Social Security Security Systems

Author:James T. Walsh

“I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.”

World Humans Wells Political Literature Human Beings Influence Economic Crisis Ancient Significance Disputes Economic Crisis

Author:Mo Yan

“Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.”

Movement Crisis Institutions Financial Assets Toxic Transformed Zombie Conservatism Financial Crisis Financial Institutions

Author:Thomas Frank

“Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.”

Thinking Writing Real Helping Stories Fighting Answers Crisis Urges Existential Existential Crisis Midway

Author:John Green

“Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.”

Challenges Sweet Calling Crisis Be Considerate

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.”

Needs Challenges Leader Mets Overcoming Crisis Wrestling

Book:Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world

Source: Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world

“Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?”

Thinking Should Jobs Life Is Girl Should Have Dating Crisis Yeah Questioning

Author:Chris Messina

“When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.”

Children Deals Havens Couple Resources Down And Crisis Busy

Author:Janet McTeer

“Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.”

People Want Self Levels Conditions Type Highest Organization Crisis Workers What You Want Revolutionary Soviet Committees Council

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.”

Years Three Born Five Crisis Dues Significant Maturity Five Years Bullets Loan Mortgage Great Depression 1930s Foreclosure Dodging Bullets

Author:Mark Zandi

“Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.”

Years Identity Crisis Identity Crisis

Author:Sara Zarr

“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”

People Way Has Beens Made Past Wish Revolution Crisis Democratic Painful Leap Farming Industrial Revolution Recoil

Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.”

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