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• The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

  Doreen Valiente

  Spring, Loss, Winter

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.165, The Crowood Press

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• It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

  Maya Deren

  Fire, Flames, Break Through

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• Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

  Richard Bandler

  Thinking, People, Masters

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• I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Too Much

  "EMMYS: Benedict Cumberbatch On 'Sherlock'". Interview with Michael Ausiello, deadline.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

  Eric Bolling

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Greatest Treasure, People, Twenties

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Way, Becoming, Moments

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 46), 1937.

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• Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

  Janet Burroway

  Children, Land, Apples

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

  Bill Vaughan

  Success, Goal, Hazards

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• What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Highways

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Boss, Effort, Around The World

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mean, Thinking, Winning

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• How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.

  Gloria Reuben

  Children, Years, Care

  "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Broads, Foreign Policy, Strokes

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• Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

  Reba McEntire

  Voice, Red, Cabinets

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• America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

  Dan J. Stein

  Home, America, President

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• Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

  Ben Yagoda

  Strong, Long, Spices

  "Yagoda’s Rules for Quotes, 2.0". benyagoda.com. August 25, 2015.

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• In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

  Ivor Grattan-Guinness

  Educational, Teaching, Law

  "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 739, 2000.

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• No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Technology, Opportunity, Choices

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Evil, Moral, Financial

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• The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

  Emilie Loring

  Disappointment, Heartache, Sorrow

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• No one ever understood disaster until it came.

  Josephine Herbst

  Understood

  Josephine Herbst (1977). “Nothing is sacred”, Arno Pr

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• Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  Fall, Trying, Hardest

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.116, Macmillan

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