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• In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  Joel Garreau

  Race, Becoming, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

  W. H. Auden

  Our World, Body, Claims

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• Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Essence, Soul

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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• Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

  Jean Cocteau

  Army, Night, Ears

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

  Jamie Dimon

  Wall, America, Saws

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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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

  Art, Loss, Survival

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Trends, Horrible

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• One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

  George Sand

  Death, Journey, Goal

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• If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Success, Two, Way

  "Jargon File". Book by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele Jr., 1983.

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• Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  Sumner Redstone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Imagination, Domain, Feels

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

  Albert Pike

  Peace, War, Victory

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• Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

  Michael J. Fox

  Richness Of Life, Soul, Found

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• The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Important, Elements, Disease

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Democrat, Troubadours

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• We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  War, Condolences, America

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• I'll tickle his catastrophe.

  James Joyce

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.79, GENERAL PRESS

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• We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

  Dean Kamen

  Fate, Race, Track

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• Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

  Herbert Gold

  Eye, Moon, Light

  Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Privilege, Witness, Terrace

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Gratitude, Grateful, Perspective

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• Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Intimacy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.322, A&C Black

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• The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dark, Animal, Remains

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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• Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

  Susan Sontag

  Change, Nature, Swag

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