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• To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

  Ted Danson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• Cracks make caves collapse.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Caves, Cracks, Trifles

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

  Michael Leunig

  Elude Us, Creative, Ego

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• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

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• When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

  Bertolt Brecht

  House, Littles, Great Ones

  Bertolt Brecht (1957). “Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle”

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• I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Honesty, Moments, Ifs

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Gentleman

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Civilization, Numbers, Nurse

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Stress, Trust In God, Enough

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• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Years, Ducks

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

  David Frum

  War, Israel, Blood

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• When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

  Steve Carell

  Dating Someone, World, Want

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• The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

  Lisa Alther

  Emotional, Energy, Deals

  Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

  Bel Kaufman

  Time, Erratic, Accordions

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

  Dora Russell

  Car, Principles, Needs

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• Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

  Alan Redpath

  Spiritual, Jesus, Fall

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• If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Crazy, Buddhism, Psychotic

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spring, Military, Dark

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.

  Ben Bova

  Military, Civilization, Space

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• No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Italian, Effort, Should

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