"War is a series of catastrophes that results…" — Georges Clemenceau

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
• The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
• Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh
• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise… — Viktor E. Frankl
• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or… — E. O. Wilson
• Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch… — George Santayana
• We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our… — Rose Macaulay
• Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all… — James Clerk Maxwell
• Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of… — Charles Lyell
• ...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a… — Al Gore
• Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about… — Barack Obama
• Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of… — Al Gore

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