"Anything in history or nature that can be……" — Susan Sontag

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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… — 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… — Geraldine Brooks
• Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all… — Tony Campolo
• There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them.… — 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… — Leonard Cohen
• As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to… — 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… — John Playfair
• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise… — Viktor E. Frankl

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