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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.
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013) -
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
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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.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir (2013 edition), HarperCollins -
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, Hayes Barton Press -
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir (2013 edition), HarperCollins -
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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