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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Advice Calamity Easy Easy Thing Foot Give Outside Rebuke Thing Whose

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The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

~Alafair Burke

Topics: Based Best Calamity Crime Harmless Keeping Lie Lying May Novels People Put Secrets Them Think Together You

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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

~Andrew Coyle Bradley

Topics: Another Calamity Clearly Considered Death Estate Exceptional Far High Leading Man May More Much Now Regard Shakespearean Side Story Than Tragedy

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Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Allow Calamity Cities Could Designers Disasters Drives Engineering Even Health Healthier Models Natural Natural Disasters Plan Public Public Health Radiation Safer Survive To Survive Underground Us Using Will

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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Again Between Calamity Difference Dragged Fell Him Misfortune Out Someone Thames Would

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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

~Benjamin E. Mays

Topics: Calamity Die Dream Dreams Unfulfilled

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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

~Bill Watterson

Topics: Calamity Live Made Make Mistakes Often Present See Some Suddenly Takes Then Up Us Wake Wake Up

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Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

~Bradley A. Smith

Topics: Al Al Gore Around Aside Being Calamity Catastrophe Changes Countless Even Expensive Frightened Global Globe Go Gore Government Green Industries Leaving Making Need Other Perceived Policy Prophets Pushing Solutions Tales Whole

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Been Brightest Calamity Confusion Darkest Furnace Great Greatest Hottest Minds Produced Productive Purest Storm Times

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Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Another Blood Calamity Connected Four Hundred Ignorance Just Lived Lust Nearly Necessity People Plain Them Through

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