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• Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

  William J. Clinton

  Health, Government, People

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• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  Flora Thompson

  Morning, Sunshine, Autumn

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• We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Drug, Style

  "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.

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• [There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

  Ali Khamenei

  Middle East, Destruction, States

  "Iranian Leader Urges Destruction of Israel". The Spokesman-Review, January 01, 2000.

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• The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Country, Men

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• As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Jobs, Social Unrest

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Land, Long

  Jules Archer, Douglas MacArthur (1973). “Front-line general”

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• We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that.

  Christine McCormick Day

  America, Upheaval, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.

  Craig Ferguson

  Talking, Middle East, Different

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• I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Ignorant, Honor, Acquisition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Jesus, Children, Book

  ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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• Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

  Christine Lagarde

  Social Unrest, Two, Risk

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• If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

  Irvine Welsh

  Strong, Party, Ukip

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Political, Trying, Disease

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• Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sorrow, Despair, Calm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout the oil-exporting Middle East. Yet the Obama administration once again seems to see no crisis. It has curtailed new leases for offshore oil exploration for seven years and exempted thousands of acres in the West from new drilling. It will not reconsider opening up small areas of Alaska with known large oil reserves.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Years, Oil

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• Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Artist, Psychics

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• That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Reality, Causes, Christ

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

  Sterling Hayden

  Challenges, Foundation, Voyages

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

  Chris Christie

  Iran, Empowering, Middle East

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

  Zhang Xin

  Social Unrest, Scary, Warning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

  Tito Colliander

  Giving, Effort, Soul

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.23, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Voice, Wanted

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