Collapse Quotes - Page 3

• Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Technology, Ideas

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• Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

  Maurice Strong

  Responsibility, Eugenics, Civilization

  "Glenn Beck holds up Maurice Strong as evidence of 'global government' conspiracy" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

  Guy Debord

  Civilization, Youth, Made

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Dinner, Parks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Loss, Science

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Running, Grace, Steam

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The last thing to collapse is the surface.

  Albert Einstein

  Lasts, Surface

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Perfection, Institutions, Layout

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Money, Wall, War

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• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

  Andrzej Wajda

  People, Waiting, Culture

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• Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

  Red Skelton

  Running, Exercise, Golf

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• Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

  Robert Mugabe

  Mean, People, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, Impact, House

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Age, Chance, Abandon

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• Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Energy, Would Be, Fabric

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• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  Irving Babbitt

  Reading, Sunday, Perfect

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

  Christopher Lasch

  Three, Lasts, Decades

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• I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

  Claire Danes

  July, Projects, Following

  Interview, www.ign.com. July 01, 2003.

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• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Regimes

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Icons, Target, Manhattan

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• When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

  Illeana Douglas

  Silly, Home, Scene

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

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• Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Males, Gender

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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