"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

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"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."

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H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger."

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"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty."

Jeffrey Sachs, American Economist

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"Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress."

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"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

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"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."

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"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

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