The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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It was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap and that essentially the lake was going to start to drain into the city. I think that second catastrophe really caught everybody by surprise,
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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This is probably the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes certainly that I'm aware of in the history of the country. It was a devastating hurricane followed by a devastating flood,
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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.
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Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.
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The Orks plague the galaxy from end to end with their ceaseless warring and strife. They are a race rooted so deeply in war that peace is utterly incomprehensible to them. They cannot be bargained with or bought save with weapons which they will inevitably turn against those who tried to bribe them. I pray with all my faith that some great catastrophe will annihilate them but I fear that ultimately it is they, not we, who will rule this galaxy.
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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience
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It is strange how an earthquake 4,000 miles away seems less of a catastrophe than the first scratch on your new car.
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
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It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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