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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.


Sun Tzu


#calamity #comes #death #doubts #feared

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.


Ambrose Bierce


#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?


Virgil


#earth #full #our #region

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.


Mark Zandi


#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.


Oliver Goldsmith


#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#calamity #great #happened #hour #old

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.


Horace


#general #genius #his #host #like

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.


Pietro Aretino


#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

Crises are challenges, not calamities.


Guy Verhofstadt


#challenges #crises

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?


Mario Cuomo


#age #calamities #ice #ice age #want






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