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- The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and… — H. L. Mencken
- An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of… — Josh Radnor
- It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even… — Epictetus
- It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You… — V.S. Naipaul
- I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be… — Charles Brockden Brown
- Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and… — Walter Savage Landor
- I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. — Rafael Sabatini
- High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what… — Anthony Giddens