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• We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Age, Should

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• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Agnes Smedley

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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• This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Realization, Months, Firsts

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• An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

  Kurt Masur

  Stars, Orchestra

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• Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Science, Fiction

  "Against Interpretation and Other Essays" by Susan Sontag, (p. 212), 1966.

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• I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

  Duncan Sheik

  Life Is, Moments, Has Beens

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• My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Phoenix, Ashes

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir". Book by Lorna Luft, April 24, 1998.

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• Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

  William Bridges

  New Beginnings, Wish, May

  William Bridges (2004). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  John Kasich

  Religious, War, Hippie

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• If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

  A. R. Ammons

  Taken, Discovery, May

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

  Newt Gingrich

  Morning, Iran, Korea

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• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

  George Meredith

  Love, Love Is, Imagination

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• Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Safe, Easy

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.898, Library of America

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• A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Imagination, Marble, Has Beens

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• The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Sunset, Loss

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Iraq, Priorities

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• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  Walt Disney

  Years, People, Would Be

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• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

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• Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fall, Alas

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• Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fire, People, Theatre

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.64, Routledge

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• FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

  Alcee Hastings

  Agency, Hands, Focus

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• If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

  Bart Stupak

  Lakes, Would Be, Locks

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• The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Causes, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2762, Delphi Classics

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Feet, Mountain, Mist

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