"To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make."
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"Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster."
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"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there."
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"I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster."
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"I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster."
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"Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace."
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"In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted."
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"We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster."
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"In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself."
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"We need the books that affect us like a disaster"
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"You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time"
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"All is but illusion and disaster."
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"Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major"
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"I'd say that it's often true that people are attracted to each other immediately and everything lines up, but it's just as true for those relationships to end up a disaster. But people don't think of that as false love-at-first-sight. They highlight the examples that worked rather than the ones that failed."
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"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic."
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"Smile...it kills time between disasters."
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"There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that."
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"Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it."
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