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“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

“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.”

“In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.”

Littles Greater Periods Bigger Crisis Monsters Firm Enterprise Wreckage Buckles

Book:The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers

Source: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers

“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

Years War Church Periods Hundred Crisis Unity Broke Medieval

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if you haven't had a deep crisis for a while, you feel like you have the luxury of going on your own way.”

Ifs Way Feels Important Country Sometimes Havens Like You Periods Crisis Compromise Luxury Bipartisan

Author:Robin Wells

“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.”

Way Giving Persons Long Book Roles Periods Crisis Obscure Limelight

Author:Susan Ertz

“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.”

Wells Past Film Teach Periods Negative Crisis Cinema Sailing

Author:Vittorio De Sica

“With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.”

Next Interest Cases Periods Activity Stress Crisis Developing Exception Mature Chapters Adolescence Orderly Next Chapter

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.”

Roles Periods Crisis Fundamentals Profound Britain Decline Dominant Inability Instability

Author:Martin Jacques

“The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.”

World Sides Issues Development Periods Crisis Posts

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them”

People Believe Fronts Periods Crisis Fallen Fins

Author:Mariko Mori

“We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.”

Source: A World Transformed

“Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.”

Needs Giving Different Seems Government Term Cases Keys Periods Crisis Debt Disappear Factors Corporations Collapse Rolling Bangs Short Term Syndromes Indebted Lenders Rolling Along

Author:Carmen Reinhart

“Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.”

Government Challenges Crazy Example Periods Europe Crisis Obligation Mentality Pennies Confronting Good Examples Drive Me Crazy Pinching

Author:Martin Schulz

“The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.”

Firsts May Ideas Form Certain Sound Memories Emotion Events Periods Relation Crisis Titles Thrown Stillness Curves Evoke

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.”

Growth Views Return Periods Crisis Debate Norm Stagnation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.”

“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.”

“When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.”

Hard Whole Government Jobs Lost Results Millions Economy Growing Periods Crisis Trade South Financial China Partners Factors Chinese Affected South Africa Global Economy Financial Crisis

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.”

Thinking Long Reading Periods Paper Crisis Papers Too Short Regular Days

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.”

Doe Reason Voice Periods Crisis Pleasant Adolescence Kicking Foals

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.”

“The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.”

Long Has Beens Clear Periods Long Time Consequence Crisis Climate Climate Change Global Warming Warning Entering Environmental Change

Book:The Assault on Reason

Source: The Assault on Reason

“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.”

War America Black White Middle Periods Crisis Slavery Dues Civil War Black And White Emergencies Abolition Suspended Decorum

Book:America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

“The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.”

Running Fighting Individual Difficult Situation Watches Dangerous Periods Battle Judgment Resources Crisis Reactions Running Away Indecision Aftermath

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.”

“However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.”

“Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.”

Growth Periods Battle Crisis

Book:Beyond the Love Game

Source: Beyond the Love Game

“To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.”

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