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calamity
«There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice»
«Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.»
«O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death»
«Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
calamity, Death itself, doubts, do away with, feared, omen, omens, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, superstitious
«Public calamity is a mighty leveler»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Disaster
| Keywords:
calamity, leveler, levelers
«No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
calamity, desirable, disappointed, every year, experiment, liberator, mysterious, on the contrary, seeker, trickery, truer
«Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, calamity, innumerable, sown
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
calamity, chief, combining, effect, higher power, lacking, rests, spells, undirected, usefulness, useless, utterly