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• I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tragedy, Determined, Misery

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Records, Facts, Sporadic

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.18, Random House

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• There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jobs, Appreciate, One Thing

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• There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

  Prince Charles

  People, Jolly

  "Prince Charles shocked by 'tragedy' of flood failures on Somerset visit" by Steven Morris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Generosity, Resistance

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• Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

  Patience Strong

  Garden, Rhythm Of Life, Triumph

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• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Home, Earth, Feels

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• When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Gentleman

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• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.
  We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

  Daniel Kish

  Running, Drag

  "Batman Pt. 2". "Invisibilia" with Lulu Miller, www.npr.org. January 22, 2015.

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• History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Murder, Natural

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

  Paul O'Grady

  Fire, Kitchen, Alarms

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Character, Improvement

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• In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Victory, Moral, Conquest

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.199, Vintage

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• I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

  Muhammad Ali

  Vanity, Masters

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• The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Wise, Hurt, Opponents

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• You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Giving, Credit

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.482, Yale University Press

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• Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

  William McFee

  Rushing, Wife, Infidelity

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• If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

  Euripides

  Way, Wealth, Rich

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

  Bruce Catton

  Spirit, Dignity, Defeat

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• The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

  Cyril Connolly

  War, World, Able

  1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

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