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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. ↗

— Virgil

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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. ↗

— Earl Browder

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. ↗

— Robert Bly

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. ↗

— Hesiod

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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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