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- Nov 07, 2020
Disintegration Quotes
On things, buildings, nations, families, coming apart.
From masonry engineered to bear less bulk to a church's families quietly coming undone, these quotes examine disintegration in structural, political, and personal terms. One reflects on the Soviet Union's collapse and the nuclear disarmament debate it left behind. Explore more in Action quotes.
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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in the Middle East, I saw how quickly religious sectarianism and bigotry can lead to the disintegration of a country - how leaders manipulate people to fear others who are different, who look different, or who have different beliefs.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
- Anticipated
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- Nov 07, 2020
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.
- Disappearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am somewhat grateful to the disintegration of my marriage for teaching me a lot about myself and about relationships, and though I wish it hadn't been such a taxing lesson, I wouldn't change a thing.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
- Family Structure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020