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Tag Name "Complacency" (161)

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Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.
James Chanos
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We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
Robin Sharma
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The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
E. Digby Baltzell
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Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't want to take risks. AI is threatening too many comfortable jobs to make people think about taking risks again.
Garry Kasparov
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.
David Frum
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So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.
Thorstein Veblen
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
Samuel Johnson
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America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.
Charles M. Vest
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Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
Joseph Grew
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Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
Samuel Johnson
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Franz Grillparzer
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That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope people wake up from the slumber they've willed themselves to. Because we're really in a dark place right now.
Karyn Kusama
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Nick Cave
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