- General
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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
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
- Decreasing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all can do our part to address America's anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
- Shows
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- Nov 07, 2020