Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures."
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Emergencies
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency."
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"The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens."
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"Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency."
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"Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage."
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"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
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"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
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"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
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"I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens"
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"[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication."
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"How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes."
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"Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency."
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"Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency."
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"The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other."
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"If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?"
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"The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss."
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"I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency."
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"Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love."
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"...you look at me like an emergency"
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"Say no to being on-call 24/7 unless you are an emergency responder. Use a speakerphone, use a headset."
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"We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures."
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"A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds."
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