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• The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people. As a result Fiji Indians are like an unsteady boat in a whirlpool.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Teacher, Religious, People

  "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.

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• I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

  Charlaine Harris

  Life, Years, Mind

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Charlaine Harris: The Lily Bard Mysteries”, p.88, Penguin

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• I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.

  Jan Neruda

  Regret, Moving, Eye

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• Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

  Michael Crichton

  Moving, Jurassic Park, May

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

  Pope Julius II

  Christian, Mass, Superstitious

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• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  Zong Qinghou

  Country, Strong, People

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Meteorology

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• The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

  Morris Kline

  Science, Reality, Order

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press

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• It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

  Franz Pick

  Gold

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• My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Mean, Manipulative

  "My Story - From a Life of Pain and Fear to Healing and Freedom in Christ" by Joyce Meyer, www.christianpost.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, War, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.

  Sarah Monette

  Kings, War, Army

  Sarah Monette (2008). “The Mirador”, p.80, Penguin

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• I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

  Shawn Achor

  Strong, Jobs, Zimbabwe

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

  Helen Clark

  Country, People, May

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• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Foundation, Moderation, Exceed

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• the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

  Simone Weil

  Taken, Power, Secret

  Simone Weil (2001). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

  Pierre Reverdy

  Equilibrium

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• Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Men, White, Suits

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• This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.

  Max Tegmark

  Moon, Technology, Self

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• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Adversity, Successful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

  Harlan Coben

  Crazy, Lines, Illness

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.166, Penguin

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• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  C.D. Wright

  Labels, Vagrants, Sticks

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ordinary, Way, Lifestyle

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.181, Bantam

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• Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Self

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• America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Oil, America

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