#catastrophe

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. ↗

— Margaret Turnbull

#her #his #looks #man #meets

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#catastrophe #cities #destroyed #exile #exiled

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. ↗

— Edward Grey

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