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"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
"I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis."
"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."
"Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure."
"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."
"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis."
"When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help."
"This isn't a drill, sir!""What d'you mean this isn't a drill?" It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!"It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!"But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed."Well?" He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else."
Explore more quotes by Christopher Lasch
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left."
"Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes."
"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
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