Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
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Catastrophe
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rosalia de Castro
Poet, Novelist
"Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes."
Al Gore
Politician
"The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"I'm planning a catastrophe."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
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"Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened."
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"I'll tickle his catastrophe."
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"The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe."
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"Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy."
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"I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created."
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