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• The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Lying, Justice, Ignorant

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• My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Florida, Years

  "'Food Chains' Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, America, Optimism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opposites, Needs, Weight

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• If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Mean, Medicine

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• May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Stupid, Character

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• Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Would Be

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• What is a disaster for most is an opportunity for a few.

  Richard Ney

  Opportunity

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• Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Progress, This Generation

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “The Dawn of Liberation”, p.87, RosettaBooks

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• Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.

  William M. Daley

  Weather, Two, Agency

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• In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States is needed with thoughts and with ideas, not only with the attitude of a messenger between parties, but - when things get rough - to come in and help with what is just and what is right, to overcome difficulty.

  King Hussein I

  Attitude, Party, Ideas

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• In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

  Euripides

  Passion, Worst

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• We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Issues, President

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, October 29, 2015.

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• You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Jobs, Thinking, Recipes

  "MAD MEN: Vincent Kartheiser Talks About the Final Episodes". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 3, 2015.

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• Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, People, Unions

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

  Jean Nouvel

  Creating, Space, Causes

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• Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Hero, Problem

  "Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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• No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

  Frank Herbert

  Fall, Hero, Hands

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Broken, Leaving, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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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 no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Action, Possibility, Salvation

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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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• You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Far Away, Zone, Universe

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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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