Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“In my head, when the gales are riding wild, I steer towards catastrophe then write about it.” — Robin Robertson Copy Share Image
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe. — Iyad Allawi Copy Share Image
Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs,… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as… — Grimes Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand—cooked up specially for our… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We'll have a play on the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In 2008 we suffered an economic catastrophe, and the rules of the game fundamentally changed forever. A few years ago, you might… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
“One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.” — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine. — Gerhard Kocher Copy Share Image
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
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