Quotes with catastrophe

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  • Adlai Stevenson II A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Susan Sontag Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bill Frist Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith 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
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • H.G. Wells History is a race between education and catastrophe.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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  • Paul Valery If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Pat Buchanan If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Selma James It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo 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
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Sand One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Anna Lindh That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Iris Murdoch The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Leonard Cohen The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Albert Einstein The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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