Let No Crisis Go to Waste/Quotes
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These are unstable times for the republic, Anakin. Some see instability as an opportunity.
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Literature
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Hurricane Katrina has just hit New Orleans, what do you do? If you said "privatize public schools", you might just be a conservative.
—from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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Live-Action TV
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Chaos isn't a pit. —Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones
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Western Animation
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Lisa: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"? |
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Real Life
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When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. |
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It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. —Jo Moore, UK PR agent, Sept. 11, 2001
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Having been attacked by al-Qa'ida, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor. —Richard Clarke, National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, Sept 12, 2001
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Never let a crisis go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things. —Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to U.S. President Obama
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