"...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm." — Daniel H. Wilson

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• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. — Camille Claudel
• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. — Madeline Miller
• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the… — Barbara Kingsolver
• Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be… — Neal A. Maxwell
• Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm. — Kerry Emanuel
• The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure… — F L Lucas
• The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists.… — Albert Pike
• In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying,… — Wilfred Burchett
• You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of… — Mark Rothko
• Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more.… — Cornell Woolrich
• A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. — Aldous Huxley
• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some… — Pierre Daninos

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