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• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Years, White, People

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• War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

  William Faulkner

  War, Purpose, Fever

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.80, Vintage

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• Something good comes out of every crisis.

  Dave Pelzer

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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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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• Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Being Yourself, Feelings, Looks

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.90, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

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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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• Incompetence is the true crisis.

  Albert Einstein

  Incompetence

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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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• 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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• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Expression, Certain

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

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• Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Racism, People, Community

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• The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

  Jay Weatherill

  Two, Issues, Water

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• I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Class, Wealth, Middle

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• Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.

  Andrew Wommack

  Blessed, Healing, Blessing

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• Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Evil, Matter

  "Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

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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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• 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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• Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together.

  Kishore Mahbubani

  Inspiring, People, Together

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• On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

  Jack Rowell

  Player, Rugby, Injury

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• The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heart, Thinking, Acting

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