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  • The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

    Wise   Men   Mountain  
  • The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

  • That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.

    Air   Eerie   Energy  
  • We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

    Two   World   Unions  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

    Bertolt Brecht (1957). “Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle”
  • Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

    Jobs   War   Self  
  • Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

    Fall   Mean   Safety  
  • The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

    Three   Lasts   Collapse  
  • My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

    Heart   Vacuums   Process  
    Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.159, Penguin
  • Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

  • Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

  • We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

  • If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

    Giving   World   May  
    Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press
  • The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

    Money   Wall   War  
  • In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.

    Party   Class   Creating  
  • Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

  • Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

  • I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

    Running   Mistake   Smart  
  • I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

    Fall   Ivy   Want  
    Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Penguin
  • Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  • Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

    Order   Might   Behavior  
    "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
  • There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

    Song   Pain   Believe  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin
  • The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

    Country   War   Media  
    "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.
  • What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what you will have is growing unemployment in Zimbabwe, growing impoverishment among the people, growing social conflict. And I think that is the worst sort of outcome, that collapse of Zimbabwe certainly would have a much, much worse effect on the region than mere image.

    Source: www.nelsonmandela.org
  • do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

    Broken   Waiting   Wheels  
    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.

    Country   Order   Europe  
    Source: thesaker.is
  • It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

    People   World   Collapse  
    Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

    Loyalty   Book   Home  
  • I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

  • ...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

    Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.122, Arktos
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