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“As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.”

People Want May Said Different Government Form Influence Direct West Spread Terrorism Regions Instability Repercussions Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.”

Views Situation Enormous Insecurity Entering Instability Fragility

Author:Tony Blair

“We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.”

Years Two Country Problem Next Numbers Cases Disease Zero Afghanistan Other Countries Pakistan Instability Polio Smallpox

Author:Bill Gates

“The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Doubt Hundred Capitalism Including No Doubt Episodes Instability

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.”

Thinking Long Different Facts Problem Certain Bits Principles Roles Trouble Security Example Primaries Long Ago Crash Requirements Margins October Instability Derivatives Linkages

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.”

Ifs May Investing Worried Welfare Crash October Instability Casinos Inconsequential

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.”

Ifs Done Problem Today Jobs Order Military Creating Resources Responsible Iraq Terrorist Administration Afghanistan Invasion Bin Laden Screwed Up Instability

Author:Sidney Blumenthal

“There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.”

Should Humanity Vision Creativity Creative Willing Degrees Consequence Tolerate Frozen Unstable Superstitious Instability Hubris

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.”

“Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer because they can influence rulemaking and rule application in their favor; on the other hand, it also leads to instability. This is so because the relatively few organizations capable of influencing supranational rulemaking through the lobbying of major governments have diverse interests. This will, in some cases, lead to compromises. But it will also lead to spheres of influence.”

“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.”

“The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.”

People Fall Economy Violence Chaos Priorities Hungry Palestinian Breakdown Fall Back Instability Hamas

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.”

Country Vote Nervous Stability European Union Instability Notorious

Author:Matteo Renzi

“Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.”

People Chinese Historic Espionage Cuban Instability

Author:Marco Rubio

“I think terrorists are trying to create instability in Turkey. They're trying to break Turkey apart from where she belongs, which is the Western world. They're trying to scare the people in Turkey, and they're trying to create instability in the country.”

People Thinking World Trying Country Break Western Terrorist Scare Instability

Author:Egemen Bag?s

“I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.”

Thinking Reason Inspired Instability

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.”

Sometimes Rhetoric Insecure North Korea Korean Instability Hysterical North Korean

Author:David Brooks

“The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.”

World Care Decision Judgment Significant Nuclear Weapons Instability

Author:George W. Bush

“It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year during which there is an unusual level of emotional instability, negativity, and crucially, major changes. This is important because right now, when you diagnose mental health problems, where you are in life doesn't really come into it. Psychologists are saying that it should.”

Important Problem Emotional Crisis Mental Health Unusual Negativity Unnecessary Psychologist Instability

Author:Oliver Robinson

“I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.”

Thinking Writing Kind Mean Different Sometimes Past Fall Language Adventure Listening Scary Tension Graveyard Multiplicity Instability

Author:Rae Armantrout

“It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.”

Political Responsibility Representation Rivalry Insulted Instability

Author:Malidoma Patrice Some

“I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.”

Thinking Mind Real School Parent Acting High School Accepted Artistic Law School Instability

Author:Elizabeth Debicki

“The decision-making process in the White House does not let most issues get up to the President. The Council thought opening up global markets to derivatives that would destabilize other countries wasn't likely to create a lot of jobs in the U.S. and might adversely affect U.S. interests by causing global economic instability.”

Country House President Interest Economic Instability

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I use a lot of balance training and functional training. Basically it's where you add an element of instability to a regular exercise. So whether it's on the physioball or the Bosu ball or just balancing on one leg, I try to incorporate an instable plane and/or movement to the exercise, so the body's doing two or more movements.”

Trying Two Use Body Movement Balance Exercise Elements Training Balls Add Legs Planes Instability Regular Exercise

Author:Steve Nash

“Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.”

Giving Country Literature Needed Usa Latin Instability Latin American

Author:Manuel Puig

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.”

Long Certain Three Effort Forever Identity Position Patterns Complicated Noses Balanced Acid Compounds Protein Unstable Intricate Instability Cloudy Sunbeams Amino Acids Cloudy Day

Book:Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

“We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.”

Thinking Writing Artist Suffering Poet Notion Contrary Spite Unhappiness Brilliance Suggesting Instability

Book:The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

Source: The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

“Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.”

Fighting Balance Instability

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

Art Born Loneliness Balance Terror Excess Great Art Instability Inhibitions

Author:Anais Nin

“Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus. Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred.”

Trying Years Believe Wells Said Remember Certain Water Born Army Fishes Credit Shallow Remember When Flip Instability Lobster Flip Flops Shallow Water Ripred

Author:Suzanne Collins

“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

Writing Spirit Waiting Air Imaginative Instability Conjuring

Author:Charles Baxter

“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”

Knows Heart Lasts Law Artist Order Fall Flower Disappear Grieving Existentialism Thinker Again And Again Fear Of Death Instability Transitory Salvage Great Dance

Book:Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel

Source: Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”

Looks Misery Comparison Stability New World Compensation Instability Brave New World Looking For Happiness Brave New World Happiness Brave New World Freedom Brave New World Character Brave New World Technology Brave New World Lenina Brave New World Consumerism Brave New World John

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.”

Thinking World May Country Moments Problem Certain Blood Tears Nervous Sweat Initials Defining Instability Arab World Sweat And Tears Defining Moments Blood Sweat And Tears

Author:Abdallah II

“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)”

Firsts Humans Matter Young Courses Loses Mystery Familiar Mysterious Bells Instability Familiar Things

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom

“I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Way Reason Law Used Lying Gone Study Century Illusion Logic Connected Stability Grammar Good And Bad Instability Hidden Meaning

Book:No and Me

Source: No and Me

“Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.”

Political Nations Causes Community Family Poverty Conflict Fuel Instability Unrest Ending Poverty World Poverty Causes Of Poverty Political Instability

Author:Kofi Annan

“Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.”

“This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.”

Life Has Beens Form Science Order Creativity Learning Generations Keys Development Evolution Property Critical Spontaneous Emergence Hallmark Instability

Book:The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

Source: The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

“The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.”

Children States Natural Emotion Emotional Opposites Hot Reactions Impulse Characteristics Contrast Teens Psychics Unstable Instability Fluctuation Emotionally Unstable

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.”

Ifs Trying War Matter Problem Individual Poverty Conditions Spring Aspect Trade Corruption Aids Heal Governance Famine Instability Ending Poverty Hiv Aids

Author:Bob Geldof

“Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.”

Earth Political Poverty Disease Extremes Terrorism Breeding Instability Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty Political Instability

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.”

Different Science Differences Results Environment Creation Environmental Critical Arise Phenomenon Feedback Novelty Emergence Loops Instability Fluctuation

Book:The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

Source: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

“If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.”

Ifs Body Jobs Purpose Economy Greater Share Citizens Benefits Majors Models Expectations Gains Stress Majority Assuming Income Welfare Minorities Instability Hope For The Future

Author:Edward S. Herman

“Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.”

“You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you, it is." He continued, "climate change is directly related to the potential of greater conflict and greater instability. I'm telling you that there are people in parts of the world - in Africa today, they fight each other over water. They kill each over it. And if glaciers are melting and there's less water available and more people, that is a challenge we have to face.”

“When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.”

Unique Solutions Capitalism Multiple Equilibrium Instability Bifurcation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Would Be Law Evil House Months Thirds Constitution Bills Majority Passing Passings Passages Twelve Immense Stance Instability Passing It

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

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