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• I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

  Kent McCord

  College, Reason, Campus

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• Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

  Abdul Kalam

  Development, Half, World

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• If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

  Jane Addams

  Spiritual, Social Unrest, Expression

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Aggravation

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Community, Political

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• The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Healing, Community, Enabling

  "Town in flames after death in police chase" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2003.

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• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Don Young

  Country, Government, Hands

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• It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

  Bille August

  Dream, Issues, People

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

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• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France

  Men, Giving, Mind

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

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• Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Soul, Weakness, Care

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

  Peter Diamandis

  Borders, Research, Violence

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.

  Denzel Washington

  Fire, Light, America

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• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Uncertainty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sweet, Logic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.47, Vintage

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• There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  Li Keqiang

  Country, Social Unrest, Growth

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Happy Life

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• We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Struggle, Past, Thank God

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

  William O. Douglas

  Acceptance, Ideas, Government

  "Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 16, 1949.

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• And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sea, Land, Choices

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Twixt Land and Sea”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Sorry, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Middle East, Rising

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