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- A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation… — Fisher Ames
- Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its… — Michel Foucault
- I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov
- When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. — Raoul Vaneigem
- I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode… — Walter Lippmann
- My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. — Madeline Miller
- Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon
- The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely… — Nicholas Murray Butler
- ... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake… — Eddie Van Halen
- I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You… — Helen Merrill