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“In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.”
“ISIS is not a mere criminal organization that spreads death wherever it went, it is rather a crisis of a nation.”
“Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.”
“Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.”
“The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a n...”
“Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.”
“Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”
“There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.”
“Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.”
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
“The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.”
“This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.”
“Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?”
“When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.”
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.”
“Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for...”
“... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...”
“Let's just say that drama became something very real to me that day, she said. It ceased to be theoretical, was no longer an internal structure in which she could hide and look out on the wold. In ...”
“Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”
“If you aren’t ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you ca...”
