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If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.
George Carlin
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Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology
Wilhelm Reich
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When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.
Jacque Fresco
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I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
Robert Metcalfe
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...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.
Richard Pipes
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.
Jim Rogers
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Stefan Zweig
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If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.
Paco Underhill
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
Andy Goldsworthy
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If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
Sarah Kane
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Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Bruce Springsteen
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How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
Robert Ludlum
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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
Milan Kundera
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris Lessing
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber
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It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
Margaret Sullavan
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We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
Jean Baudrillard
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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
Kelly Miller
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Christopher Lasch
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I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
Joan Kirner
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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
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
Donald Miller
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As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
Fareed Zakaria
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
Bel Kaufman
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We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.
Michael Hudson
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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
John Green
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Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
Martin Firrell
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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
H. G. Wells
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... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
Carlos Castaneda
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Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
Paul Auster
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That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.
Jay Asher
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Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
Colin Hanks
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The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.
Lisa Alther
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
Bertolt Brecht
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I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.
Portia de Rossi
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If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.
Vladimir Putin
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To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
Frank Herbert
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If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.
Christine Caine
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In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.
Mason Cooley
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If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
Germaine Greer