Quotes with catastrophes

  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Virginia Woolf It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Isaac Asimov Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Albert Pike War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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