"Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure." — James Fallows
"Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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More Collapsing Quotes
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Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I…
— Roger Bannister
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading…
— Unknown Author
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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and…
— Lester R. Brown
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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies…
— David Shields
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The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.
— Mitt Romney
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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail,…
— Paul Watson
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After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented…
— Bill Kelly
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There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The…
— Fatih Birol
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the…
— Alan Greenspan
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