"The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release."
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"In life, the worst disasters come from passion."
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"I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present."
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"Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now."
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"So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't."
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"This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever."
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"Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst."
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"I've had some real hair disasters."
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"For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin."
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"Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster."
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"I do not wish disaster to British arms."
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"Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race."
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"By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success"
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"We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster."
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"One person's disaster is another person's talking point."
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"The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone."
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"Any disaster is a learning process."
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"Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?"
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"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
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"Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster."
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