Catastrophe Quotes
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Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
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As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.
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To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.
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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
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Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
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We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment.
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Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
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We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
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I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.
