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  1. 1

    A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

    Disaster
  2. 2

    Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

    W. S. Gilbert
    Disaster
  3. 3

    Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

    Edward Gibbon
    Disaster
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    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
    Disaster
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    The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Disaster
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    The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

    David Mamet
    Disaster
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    The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

    Henry Miller
    Disaster
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    What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

    George Eliot
    Disaster

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