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• Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

  Johnny Ramistella

  People, Sick, Mud

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• The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Causes, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2762, Delphi Classics

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• If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Power, Two, Triumph

  "If - " st. 2 (1910)

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Long, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.170, Modern Library

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• Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Stupid, Miracle, Disease

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

  David Cronenberg

  People, Groups, Ifs

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• My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, My Friends

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph (p. 26), December 2, 2004.

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• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Hard Work, Men, San Francisco

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• The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

  Geraldo Rivera

  Stories

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• There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Sports, Responsibility, Doe

  "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

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• Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Romantic, Two, Dating

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• In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

  Jan Egeland

  Attention, World, Emergencies

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

  Sue Kelly

  Loss, Weather, Agriculture

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Tragedy, Way

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• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Littles, Study, Natural

  "Rabbi: Hurricane punishment for pullout" by Zvi Alush, www.ynetnews.com. September 7, 2005.

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Player

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• Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

  Polly Toynbee

  Fall, Example, Voters

  "Britain is smiling, but it looks daggers at Labour" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2006.

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• If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

  Bruce Sterling

  Military, World, Politics

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• Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

  Delia Smith

  Sea, Numbers, Kitchen

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• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iraq, Facts, Significant

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• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Weather, Quality, Profit Margin

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• Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

  Josiah Strong

  Great Business, Distress

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• People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  People, Survivor, Sept 11

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Movie, Games, Growth

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• Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Past, Japan, Used

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