#isis

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

There is energy and power in a crisis. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#energy #power

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. ↗

— George William Curtis

#conquer #crisis #die #every #great

So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#community #crisis #does #financial #financial crisis

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#countries #crisis #developing #developing world #east

Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#constitutional #continue #country #crisis #filled

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#could #crisis #i #i think #made

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #attitude

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. ↗

— James Tobin

#economic #economic theory #ferment #fertile #period

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#battle #chance #crisis #game #life