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“Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!”

“It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The more they learn about these great apes, the deeper our identity crisis seems to become. The resemblance between humans and chimpanzees is not only external. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent, self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?”

Source: Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes

“Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Use Nations Ability Shapes Crisis Agendas Making Changes Franklin Times Of Crisis

Author:Pete du Pont

“If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.”

Ifs Hero Crisis Ships Rise Above Rise Above It

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.”

Source: The Essential Ken Wilber

“We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Balance Vote Crisis Nuclear Core Checks Republic Temper Precipice Tantrums Temper Tantrums

Author:Charles Schumer

“No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.”

“If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.”

Ifs World Years Looks Has Beens Lasts Poverty Happened Thirds Crisis Debt Improvement Reverse Third World Debt Crisis

Author:David Korten

“It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.”

Ifs Thinking Children Ends America Grows Community Crisis Fundamentals Hunger Hungry Reach Out

Author:Tim McGraw