As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
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Related She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-fo... DEAN KOONTZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER Membership has not grown. Women were once the backbone of the symphony audience, but that has shifte... MICHAEL M. KAISER I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward... CHARLES M. SCHULZ Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing w... THOMAS SOWELL Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. RICK RIORDAN The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past... DEYTH BANGER Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ... THOMAS SOWELL Virtually each and every issue he outlined, Gov. Riley has proposed or supported over the last three... DAX SWATEK Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement ERIKA JOHANSEN The Internet has brought businesses from all around the world in touch with consumers from all aroun... ELLEN STARK Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has... LORETTA YOUNG We have not seen any signs of it decreasing. Certainly over the last couple of decades it has been i... BOB SCHOENI Pain has creative power, Let the magic unfold... HENNA SOHAIL If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still. WILLIAM STAFFORD This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN It's hard you know, ... It's a lot of games - this team played last Wednesday in D.C. - it was a har... CARLOS RUIZ On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor. PAWAN MISHRA I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old a... AMANDA CRAIG Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS Water stocks have performed abysmally over the last three years. Thames has been driving through int... IAIN TURNER Depletion has occurred mainly over the last two decades. ELIZABETH WEATHERHEAD On the whole I think Nationalism has been a very positive force in Scotland over the last two or thr... DOUGLAS DUNN Now that I'm at school, Braden has been taking care of the business, and he'll take it over as his s... ADAM BORMANN There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS This is the fight that I have been shouting out for over the last few years and I am delighted that ... JOE CALZAGHE It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we... JAMES A. MURPHY He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs… “Okay,�... RICK RIORDAN Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST Pain was unimportant. Failure was unthinkable. RICK RIORDAN The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very litt... HORACE COOPER We are a step closer to it now -- the doomsday scenario. TIM HUTCHINSON That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and... GEORGE SAUNDERS It has literally turned your house into an A.T.M. in the last couple of years. That will virtually g... CARL STEIDTMANN Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She�... RICK RIORDAN What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s... RICK RIORDAN From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ... DEAN KOONTZ I know that every match has the potential of being my last one, so I'm getting after it and giving w... KALAN KIRCHER The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its... J. G. BALLARD In the first three games it seemed like everything they hit that hit the tape rolled over for them. ... JOE LOIACONO Why? Because it is adapted from England through the proliferation of English coaches in influential ... CRAIG FOSTER I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is... DEYTH BANGER This is the pause that refreshes. This is not a doomsday scenario. MICHAEL NIEMIRA Her suspense was terrible. THOMAS HARDY Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of... THOMAS HARDY They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are... THOMAS HARRIS I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world... MEHMET ALI AğCA The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its... J. G. BALLARD This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of ... JAMES S.A. COREY If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... She showed me her room, isn't it good, ... NORWEGIAN WOOD (THE BEATLES) [Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. RICK RIORDAN Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels. RICK RIORDAN It's tough for guys like George, Horner and me to do anything because everybody watches us. But I to... LEVI LEIPHEIMER Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful th... PAWAN MISHRA American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its i... ALVIN ROSENFELD We expect most of the growth will come from the domestic side as has already happened over the last ... BERT HOFMAN 'The Color Purple' has long been a part of my life, from the first time I read it over 20 years ago ... OPRAH WINFREY The last three weeks, they might as well take the Defensive Player of the Year trophy and send it fo... FLIP SAUNDERS The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous ... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child... RICK YANCEY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more... BILL GATES Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of de... ANGELA DAVIS She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarr... SAMANTHA POWER The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. JACKSON POLLOCK I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close frie... PAUL WATSON The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY I think the true fans will come out. It's the casual fans who might take a little while. But the tru... GLEN MURRAY But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You ... SARAH DESSEN I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done h... DAVID OGILVY From the first day I saw this car I've dreamt of driving it, ... This has been a dream come true. BOBBY RAHAL From the first day ... BOBBY RAHAL I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year. ELIZABETH MORGAN The Total Cost of Ownership for in-house applications has gotten higher over the last three-to-five ... SANJEEV AGGARWAL Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the M... FAREED ZAKARIA Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Everyone feels Frank will come back and be the Frank Thomas we've seen for many years, ARN TELLEM This has had three of us building it nearly full-time for the last three months. BILL DWOLINSKY It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future th... MIKE BARNICLE All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you... DAVID RANDOLPH
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