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• Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

  Upton Sinclair

  Two, People, Political

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Powerful, Ascent, Noise

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• Crisis precedes transformation.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Transformation

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• The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

  Antonin Scalia

  Jobs, Practice, Times Of Crisis

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Paper

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  War, Differences, Humanity

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s prophetic vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

  Naomi Klein

  Giving Up, Thinking, Environmental

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

  Kevin Sessums

  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, War, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

  Katy Butler

  Doctors, People, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Talking, Numbers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Campaigns, Financial

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• Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Past, Our Generation

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• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  Oliver DeMille

  Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work

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• Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?

  Oliver DeMille

  War, Past, Community

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• Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

  Ferdinand Lundberg

  Military, Men, Order

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• Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

  Robert Fulghum

  People, Imagination, Secret

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.

  Charles Burnett

  Technology, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Media, People, Attention

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• I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Art, Thinking, People

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• That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Art, People

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Louisville

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

  Frank Rich

  Play, Political, Truth Is

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2008.

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• For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

  Erin Brockovich

  Water, Deterioration, Clean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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