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• The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

  Jay Kay

  Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Life Crisis

  "Jay Kay: ‘Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy’". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

  Larry McMurtry

  Rational, Humans, Human Beings

  Larry McMurtry (2007). “Telegraph Days: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

  Diana DeGette

  Challenges, Innovation, Progress

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• Many things can happen very quickly in times of crisis.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Crisis, Happens

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• At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in the face of problems. Please do not withdraw into yourselves! This is a danger: we shut ourselves up in the parish, with our friends, within the movement, with the like-minded... but do you know what happens? When the Church becomes closed, she becomes an ailing Church, she falls ill! That is a danger. . . .A Church closed in on herself is the same, a sick Church.

  Pope Francis

  Loneliness, Fall, Sick

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• It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God - their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Thinking

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• Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Mean, Voice

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• Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

  Pete du Pont

  Thinking, Way, Use

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.

  Richard Holloway

  Erosion, People, Alternatives

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• To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Freedom, Powerful, Patriotic

  "Dr. Sami Al-Arian vs Big Brother's 'Ministry of Justice'" by Eileen Fleming, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Men, Kitchen

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet because, whatever personal feelings there were, the issue was 'How can we get this country through this time of crisis?' 

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Issues

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Events, Done

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1999). “Two Lucky People: Memoirs”, p.220, University of Chicago Press

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• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Important

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

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• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Comfort, Use, Guidance

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

  Mark Zandi

  Thinking, Differences, Normal

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• In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

  Robert Asprin

  Doe, Importance, Marie

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• In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

  David Morrissey

  Honesty, Thinking, Self

  "The First Time David Morrissey Killed a Zombie". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2012.

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• "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

  Tom Lehrer

  Positive Thinking, Life Is Like, Trying

  "Introduction to 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Mark Udall

  Leadership, Country, Integrity

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

  Bob Menendez

  Mean, America, United States

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