Quotes about collapse
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The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.
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We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.
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There is no other as Great as the Guru. I have come and collapsed in the Guru's Sanctuary. In His Kindness, He has united me with God.
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Alex Steffen Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.
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C. Northcote Parkinson Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Bertolt Brecht When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Bruce Springsteen You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
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Lech Walesa Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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Lee Kuan Yew After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.
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Jeff Goodell Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
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Jeff Goodell Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.
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The regard in which he is held by people from every walk of life in virtually every corner of the world has added incalculably to our ability to cover such historic events as the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
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We knew we would have a very weak number because of a collapse in auto sales after two big months in a row and the incentives kind of stop working ... But if you look at the rest of the report, every single major component was up. It was very broad-based growth across many components.
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We knew they were going to collapse on our post players. We just tried to find good looks, and they happened to be from the outside.
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Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.
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When he first gets off the plane, I'm going to hug him. Then I'm going to collapse for a few hours, and then we're going to sit down for a long discussion about the consequences.
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George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
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If we get a normal winter, we'll probably have enough inventories, but if we get a very harsh winter, inventories could collapse to unseen levels. The oil market would be very jittery with any supply disruptions.
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If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.
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What we certainly do accept is that many people have suffered serious losses through pension schemes having collapsed in this way and that's why we've already made 400 million pounds worth of public resources available to provide financial assistance to people in those circumstances.
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We were definitely happy with that since we collapsed at Old Mill. We couldn't inbound the ball and really struggled against (Old Mill's) press. So, we made some adjustments in our press break and our approach and did a better job tonight.
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Flip Saunders He turned down some threes. He took a couple of dribble-penetrations, and that collapsed them more and helped out some of our other guys. Sometimes he might take some threes when he's covered, a little bit contested. (Wednesday) he didn't force too many, he let things come to him more. I think he didn't try to force too many, he let the game come to him more.
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He is a very good player. And I thought we did well to guard him. He got some of those points off loose balls that we collapsed on and didn't get and he got passes in situations where he could score, but that's just how basketball works. But I thought we did well guarding him. We didn't allow him to penetrate too much and we kept him from hurting us off the dribble like he is capable of doing.
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If the roof had collapsed an hour earlier then there would have been a massacre. Among the injured, there were definitely two Germans, a Czech, a Belgian, and a Slovak.
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Eliot Spitzer I don't expect a settlement, and I don't expect a collapse of discussions.
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I do not think that the Chinese Communist Party is going to implode and collapse like it did in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This Communist Party is going to fight to stay in power, and it will use the military to stay there.
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He responds to stimuli and that's good. He's still critically ill, in intensive care, he suffered a collapsed lung.
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Todd Duncan Based upon what we've seen in the basement, eventually left uncorrected, it could actually collapse to the center,
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Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.
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Steve Bruce My players have been rightly hammered from pillar to post this week but at least they rolled their sleeves up and didn't collapse after that dreadful start.
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Long droughts have been implicated in the collapse of many ancient civilizations on virtually every continent, including our example in eastern Africa, the Mayan in Central America and many others.
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John Gibbons Look at the last two years. He had that collapsed lung twice, and then he broke his hand at the beginning of last year,