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Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
Rex Stout
2.
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux
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Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
Marine Le Pen
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The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Al Gore
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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
Virginia Woolf
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
Jules Romains
11.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Mignon McLaughlin
12.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese
13.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller
14.
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
Jean Baudrillard
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
Aharon Appelfeld
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Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.
James A. Owen
18.
The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
Clare Boothe Luce
20.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno
21.
We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.
Costa-Gavras
22.
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.
Masha Gessen
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
Bill Gates
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Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
Anna Quindlen
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You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.
Ilona Andrews
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We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
Moby
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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
32.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
Max Hastings
33.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Eric Alterman
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So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.
Steve Inskeep
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In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.
Max Lucado
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It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.
J. Lynn
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I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.
Michael Lewis
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Tony Campolo