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• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Blessing, Technology, Hatred

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• There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

  Robert Culp

  Scripts, Wonderful, Direct

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• These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

  James Van Allen

  These Days

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• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Country, Cities, States

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• I've been saying for a long time, and I think you'll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil - and we should have taken the oil - ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil - a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Thinking, Isis

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Secretary Clinton is talking about taking out ISIS. "We will take out ISIS." Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Talking, Iraq

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

  James Fallows

  Views, Environmental, Development

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Vanity, Masters

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• There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

  Meg Greenfield

  Sleep, Self, Talking

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• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Vietnam

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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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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• 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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• We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Faults, Cures, Dismayed

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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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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Together, Citizens, Legs

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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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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• Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

  Euripides

  Crush, Adversity, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, War, Believe

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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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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• In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

  Maria Montessori

  Nature, Loss

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.160, Orient Blackswan

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• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  Alice Meynell

  Nature, Loss, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.267, eBookIt.com

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