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• Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Fickle, Vain

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.2

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Extra Time, Entrepreneur

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Creativity, Creative, Humanity

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• • Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Two, Smell, Numbers

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• Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

  Dalai Lama

  Next Day, One Day, May

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.40, Penguin

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• Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Government, Genius

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• In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

  Frank Herbert

  Culture, Enough, Structure

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.

  Dave Matthews

  Beautiful, Land, Voice

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• The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world.

  David J. Lieberman

  Emotional, Cities, Psychology

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.161, David Lieberman

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• Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.

  Jack Williams

  Years, America, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

  Jerrold Nadler

  War, Mean, Gun

  "On Gun Control, Jerry Nadler Explains What Congress Could Do Right Now" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Science, Clouds

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• Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

  Dan Miller

  Way, Action, Indecisive

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

  Will Durant

  Peace, Supremacy, Equilibrium

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Home, Science, Blow

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• We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we`re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

  Jeb Bush

  Simple, America, Want

  "Watch a college student confront Jeb Bush: 'Your brother created ISIS'". www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2015.

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• We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Yemen, Interest, Seeing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Teacher, Philosophy, Character

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Struggle, Challenges, Mind

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

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.

  Garry Kasparov

  Iran, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loyalty, Cooperation, Investment

  Source: www.rferl.org

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