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I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

~Amin Maalouf

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What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.

~Annabeth Gish

Topics: Around Being Believe Catastrophic Children Events Family Ghosts Harmed Husband Kind Like Me Really Scares Something Stuff Wander I Believe

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Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Advised Based Began Catastrophic Changed Chart Decisions Economic Fifty Future Helped Helping Historians Historical History Leaders Learn Making Making Decisions Mistakes Nations Past Past Mistakes Politicians Principles Rather Results Something Than Then Were Years Years Ago

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Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Believers Both Brands Catastrophic Chained Crucial Devoid Disasters Easy Empathy Floods Gospel Hurricanes Issue Keep Like Men Narratives Natural Natural Disasters Platitudes Prosperity Provide Rooted Scripture Success Thinking Trump Why Winners Winning Mr

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People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Topics: Accident Catastrophic Covered Else Happens Need Out Pay People Simple Someone Something You

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If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.

~Austan Goolsbee

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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Alternative Any Better Catastrophic Consequences Disarmament Humanitarian Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Priority Reducing Require Risk Than Top Treated Use Weapons Will Work

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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Catastrophe Catastrophic Clear Controversy Countless Discretion Even Experiences Facts Judges Law Lawsuits Majority Men Most Often Rare Relates Vast Vast Majority

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NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Aversion Bureaucracy Catastrophic Combination Consequence Failures Innovation Kind Many Monopoly Myriad Nasa Natural Necessary Risk Ways

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It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Able Acceptable Acres Action Because Big Burn Catastrophic Continue Fires Forest Forests Management Our Place Poor See Situations Take Thousands

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