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Catastrophe Quotes by George Julius Poulett Scrope
- Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having…
- As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers…
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
- Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks
- Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people… — Tony Campolo
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky
- Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky
- The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — Leonard Cohen
- As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman
- Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh
- The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair
- Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak… — Viktor E. Frankl