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• Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

  Bhartrhari

  Summer, God, Joy

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• His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

  William Gibson

  Rain, Eye, Glasses

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.220, Penguin

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• Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.

  Hyman Minsky

  Stability, Crisis, Stable

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• Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

  Tacitus

  Wisdom, Foundation, Politics

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• In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

  Alan Moore

  Stress, Past, Reality

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

  Eoin Colfer

  Eoin Colfer (2007). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax

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• Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

  Nora Roberts

  Risk, Care, Emotion

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.93, Penguin

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• If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Trying, Trials, Messages

  "The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 2nd edition, p. 94, 1961.

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• Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Abuse, Individual

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Home, Oil

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• If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Religious, Political, Politics

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• If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Trying, Helping

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• Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

  Sean Covey

  Friendship, Best Friend, Losing Friends

  Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

  Frank Wilczek

  Religion, Would Be, Answers

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• The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Emotional, Opposites

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• The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Science, Tissues

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• All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

  Venerable Bede

  Sea, Storm, Fickle

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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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• The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Games, Play

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

  James Poniewozik

  Reality, Careers, Choices

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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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