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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Author:
Xun Zi
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One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.
Author:
Richard Veniste
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One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.
Author:
Rene Veaux
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
Author:
Billy Tauzin
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.
Author:
Arthur Sylvester
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Author:
William Sherman
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Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
Author:
Jan Schakowsky
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Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Author:
Anne Schaef
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
Author:
Warren Rudman
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The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
Author:
Warren Rudman
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Author:
Warren Rudman
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If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
Author:
Mike Rogers
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Author:
Johnny Rivers
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The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
Author:
Jon Porter
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Author:
Emo Philips
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The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
Author:
John O'Neill
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The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
Author:
John Olver
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It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.
Author:
Michael O'Donoghue
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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
Author:
Dave Obey
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Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
Author:
Bob Ney
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If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
Author:
Gaylord Nelson
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Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.
Author:
Ray Nagin
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The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.
Author:
Chris Morris
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Author:
Henry Miller
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
Author:
George Meredith
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W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.
Author:
Scott McNealy
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Author:
George McGovern
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An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
Author:
Kurt Masur
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Author:
Michael Korda
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The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.
Author:
Junichiro Koizumi
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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.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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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.
Author:
Eugene Kennedy
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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
Author:
John Kasich
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This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
Author:
Leon Jouhaux
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This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
Author:
Louis Johnson
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First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Author:
Steve Irwin
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Author:
Ada Huxtable
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.
Author:
Russel Honore
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
Author:
Jim Hightower
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
Author:
W. Harriman
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My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
Author:
Linda Hamilton
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One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Author:
Lawrence Halprin
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Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
Author:
Jacob Hacker
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You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.
Author:
Richard Grimes
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There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Author:
Meg Greenfield
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
Author:
Jonah Goldberg
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
Author:
Natalia Ginzburg
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One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
Author:
Kathie Gifford
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
Author:
Susan George
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Author:
Malcolm Fraser
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One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
Author:
Vito Fossella
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Author:
Ernst Fischer
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Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
Author:
John Doolittle
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
Author:
Daisy Donovan
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Author:
Norm Dicks
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France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Author:
Johnny Depp
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The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
Author:
Godfried Danneels
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One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Author:
Tim Curry
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There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.
Author:
Robert Culp
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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.
Author:
David Cronenberg
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
Author:
Jim Cooper
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Author:
Catherine Catherine II
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Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Author:
Elias Canetti
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Author:
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.
Author:
Peter Brimelow
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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Author:
William Bridges
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I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
Author:
Jonathan Brandis
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
Author:
Jo Bonner
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Author:
Elizabeth Bishop
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Author:
Joe Biden
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
Author:
Thomas Barnardo
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Author:
Norman Augustine
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
Author:
A. Ammons
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
Author:
Daniel Akaka
