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• Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.

  Tom Daschle

  Important, Exhausted, Balkans

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• Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Children, Divorce, Hatred

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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

  Tony Blair

  Views, Insecurity, Fragility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Matter, Causes, Scene

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

  Bridget Riley

  Character, Way, Accepting

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• Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Wind, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  War, Men, Essence

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Frustration

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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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.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, People, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, inhumanity and irrationality to be signs that it was a merely transitional form, which had delivered into humanity's hands the means to a much better way of life than any that have ever existed on earth. Marx could not bring himself to believe that our species is so benighted, irrational and slavish that it would put up with such a monstrous way of life.

  Allen W. Wood

  Believe, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Population, Cost

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Taste, Irregularity, Occasions

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

  Van Jones

  Leadership, Nature, Reality

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• Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Effort, Political

  "Commentary: Yes, we can eradicate malaria" by Anthony S. Fauci, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

  Barack Obama

  People, President, Pathways

  "Politics and Foreign Aid: What Romney and Obama Can Learn from Huckabee and Lincoln" by Tom Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

  George Soros

  Risk, Use, Credit

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• We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

  Said Seyam

  Law, Demand, Chaos

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• The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Feelings, Movement

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

  Peter Senge

  Patient, Produce, Sluggish

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.282, Random House

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Looks, Done, Dynamics

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• Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Real, Land, Shadow

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

  Peter Drucker

  Accomplishment, Risk, Important

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