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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Bends Better Calamities Character Elasticity Escapes Frivolous Great Happens Light Mind Oak Often Presence Recover Sometimes Sooner Spirits Tempest Than Those Which Willow

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Calamities Fortune Good Good Fortune Kinds Misfortunes Others Ourselves Two

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

~Aristotle

Topics: Anyone Bears Beautiful Becomes Calamities Cheerfulness Great Greatness Mind Suffering Through

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He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

~Beilby Porteus

Topics: Calamities He Over Suffers Them Twice Who

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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: Calamities Care Displaced Environmental Heal House Human Now Our Pollution Question Spirits Survival Those Where Who World Youth

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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

~George Will

Topics: Aging America Blue Calamities Causes Come Crash Crisis Demographics Different Driven Entitlement Harbor Known Lightning Like Market Pearl Pearl Harbor Population Scope Some Stock Stock Market Structure Summer Timing

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