#catastrophe

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. ↗

— Le Corbusier

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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anytime #anywhere #catastrophe #count #happens

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. ↗

— Bill Frist

#congress #forward #instead #looms #policies

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#catastrophe #comes #control #familiar #feeling

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular