Crisis Quotes - Page 22

• The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

  J. William Fulbright

  Warning, Young, Protest

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• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Problem, Claims, Paradigm

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Made, Scapegoat

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• My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

  Jamie Dimon

  Daughter, Home, School

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• We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

  Alan Greenspan

  Two, Looks, Common

  "The World Today" with Sue Lannin, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2009.

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• There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

  Paul Krugman

  Atheist, Foxholes, Libertarian

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• The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Retrospect, World

  "Greenspan on the Economy: Double Ouch" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Financial, Finance

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• We need to make clear that the economic crisis has to be matched by a crisis of ideas. That's the problem, right? The economic crisis is not matched by a crisis of ideas. That's where the war is going to be fought.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Problem, Economic

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• I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

  Brad Meltzer

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

  Carlos Slim

  Sound, Pay, Matter

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• Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

  Rupert Murdoch

  Israel, Presses, Consistently

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2012

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• ...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Gold, Intensity, Correlation

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Motivation, Learning

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Warrior, Men, Brain

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• Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Love Is, Forgiving, Alive

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.101, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Democracy, Soil

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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• Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

  Ray Romano

  Attitude, Oysters, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Stress, Believe, Writing

  Robert J. Shiller (2013). “Finance and the Good Society”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Mother, Nature

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• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Love, Real, Thinking

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• We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Waiting, Voting

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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