George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse."
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Collapse
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Stefan Zweig
Writer
"Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself."
Bruce Springsteen
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"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."
Milan Kundera
Writer
"[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory."
Kelly Miller
Sociologist, Author
"The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917."
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"We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse."
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"It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself."
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"What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?"
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"but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever."
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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."
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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!"
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"When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain."
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"The last thing to collapse is the surface."
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"To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future."
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