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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee

History State Nineteen States Collapsed Moral Civilizations Reached Them Appeared Now Twenty-Two United United States

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris. George Ayittey

Corruption World Destruction Cause Problems Naked Carnage States Worst Collapsed Plunder Horrendous Vapid Cases Devastated Economies Leaving Caused Wake Debris Trails Dictators Human Wanton Grand Theft Treasury

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism. Alistair Horne

Broken Better Nation Relations Collapsed Magnanimity Never Towards Gorbachev Reagan Were Soviet Thatcher Soviet Union Union Displayed

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid. Lynda Resnick

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People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging. Nicolle Wallace

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Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films. Harvey Weinstein

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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. P. J. O'Rourke

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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed. Allan Gurganus

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It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. Andrew Greeley

Science Collapsed Generally Put Schools Catholics Test Were Intellectuals Graduate Going Arts Not Interested Interested Believed

North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. Barbara Demick

Old Black Power Ruin Collapse Collapsed Stations Had Cheap Propped Faded Ally Economy Inefficient Korea Up North North Korea Soviet Soviet Union Oil Which Fuel Communist Union Early Early 1990s

80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein. Barton Seaver

People Our Collapsed Percent Rely Primary Primary Source Global Protein Oceans Overly Fish Source Stocks Exploited Billion Fully Two

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. Ben Okri

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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit. Benazir Bhutto

Book Tyranny Face Long Collapsed Muslims Spirit Calls Always However Dictatorships Holy Holy Book Therefore Pakistan Resist

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever. Bill Walton

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In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief that it was because video games were a fad. Bobby Kotick

Video Games Collective Lost Way Bit Collapsed Atari Had Fad Industry Because Were Mid Video Games Belief Widespread

Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships. Chris Crawford

Game Trust First Freelance Own Relationships Solely Collapsed Out Atari About Betrayal My Own Loose Spreading Doing Did Which Cut Really Interpersonal Thing Started

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? Christian Lous Lange

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Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. Diane Cilento

Once Collapsed Parental Because Bed Children Sat

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States. Dick Cheney

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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. Emir Kusturica

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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California. Gary Numan

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They didn't incarcerate the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii. That's the place that was bombed. But the Japanese-American population was about 45 percent of the island of Hawaii. And if they extracted those Japanese-Americans, the economy would have collapsed. But on the mainland, we were thinly spread out up and down the West Coast. George Takei

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. Gustav Stresemann

War Constitution World Result Old Feeling Thinking Changed Collapsed Structure Economic Germany Order Social Social Order World War

Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed. Hallgrimur Helgason

Prosperity Country Rich Our Collapsed Heads Got Iceland Century Early

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