Collapse Quotes
501 quotes by 435 authors
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The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful…
— Al Gore
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If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was…
— St. Jerome
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with…
— Padma Lakshmi
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...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then…
— Marlo Morgan
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
— Ludwig von Mises
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a…
— Barry Goldwater
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I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic…
— Charley Reese
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Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the…
— Milton Friedman
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There…
— Charles Francis Richter
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
— Karl Marx
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The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more…
— Stephen Hawking
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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,…
— Rajneesh
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Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not…
— Nancy Chodorow
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If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's…
— Arthur Eddington
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Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret…
— Keith Brantly
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Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if…
— Rowan Williams
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In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more…
— Ian Kershaw
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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in…
— E. O. Wilson
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
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