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• Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

  Neil Gaiman

  Choices, Tea, Kind

  Neil Gaiman @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 25, 2009.

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• We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

  John McCain

  Waiting, Littles, Ifs

  "McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican". www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Book, Way

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

  Thomas Frank

  Trying, Watches, Three

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from Armageddon to The Perfect Storm and Contact, and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.

  Chris Vance

  Real, Perfect, Storm

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• So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Men, Holocaust

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• To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Choices, Challenges, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

  Sam Shepard

  Flower, Sky, Race Riots

  Interview with Michael Almereyda, www.interviewmagazine.com. Published.

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• The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

  Mae Brussell

  Circles, Lakes, Israel

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

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• We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Heart, Eye

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.30, Cornell University Press

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• If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

  William Edgar

  Lying, Wake Up, Should

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• In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Optimistic, Hands, Land

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• Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Good Omens, Dangerous

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Play, Names, America

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• If she’s so important, why aren’t you here guarding her? (Wulf) Mostly because this ain’t Buffy and there’s not one single Hellmouth to guard. I’m up to my armpits in Armageddon down here in New Orleans and not even I can physically be in two places at once. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  New Orleans, Two, Important

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.120, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

  Albert Brooks

  Coats, Fans, Stories

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• As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Mom, Mother, Broken

  "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.

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• The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Love Is, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.107, New World Library

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Doe, Complacency

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Gun, Worry, Gold

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2013.

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• Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

  Kathy Change

  Real, Our World, America

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• We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, January

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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• I'm so pleased that I'm coming back to Armageddon, just to meet everyone. I'm very excited about doing it, I've heard great things about Armageddon and I'm just really excited to get there.

  Billy Boyd

  Excited, Coming Back, Great Things

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• If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, Fighting, Iran

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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