In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
You will vote for first choice candidate whether or not you think he'll win. But I'm saying you may find yourself for… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Necessarily may it not be said catastrophe the burying of cities into the depths of the Ocean, bursting of the Earth, disasters… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“So it was like that now, catastrophe inevitable at the most empty moments. Everyone waiting, almost wanting it, a secret, guilty desire… — Maggie Helwig Copy Share Image
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the… — Robert Cailliau Copy Share Image
“There is no word for such a catastrophe. It would liquefy the surface of the planet, vaporizing the oceans and sterilizing everything… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You will find that free advice about your money is always available. It's usually those who lean back and give you the… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his… — James Payn Copy Share Image
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
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