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• The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

  Arthur Henderson

  Depression, Years, Political

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• The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

  Lillian Smith

  Kind, Ordeals, Extremist

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• Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

  Amelia Earhart

  Way, Humans, Happenings

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• I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, Average, Years

  "Dems seek to sharpen message on eve of convention". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2012.

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• It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

  David Bohm

  Creativity, Ideas, Fundamentals

  David Bohm, F. David Peat (2000). “Science, Order, and Creativity”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, White, Males

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Dirty, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.

  Al Gore

  Light, Law, Important

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Media, Different, Tools

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Struggle, Men, Alive

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

  Avi Lewis

  Inequality, Underemployment, Joblessness

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Hard Work, Simple

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

  David McCullough

  Determination, Shadow, Courageous

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Environmental, Spiritual Crisis

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• Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

  Robin Williams

  Economic, Canada Being Great, Economic Crisis

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• The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

  Napoleon Hill

  Succeed, Moments, Turning Points

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.28, Penguin

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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• The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  World, Consciousness

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• The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

  Antonin Scalia

  Jobs, Practice, Times Of Crisis

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Paper

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

  Naomi Klein

  Giving Up, Thinking, Environmental

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

  Kevin Sessums

  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Talking, Numbers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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