- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crisis Quotes
Lines written from the middle of hard times.
The quotes collected here range from reflections on historic struggles for freedom to commentary on financial downturns and the pressures facing young people today. Together they show a crisis as both a breaking point and, sometimes, a starting point. See also Danger for a related mood.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
- Selfish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Donald J Trump and the U.S. media appear now to be split by deep doctrinal differences - of the constitutional crisis kind. But, virtually up until the split, Trump and the media were as one - a perfect symbiosis.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020