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4de0489
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"Daemon!" Dee called from the kitchen. "I need your help!" "We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen." He rubbed his hands down his face. "It's possible."
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funny
dee
katy
disaster
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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039feb6
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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
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life
disaster
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Kim Edwards |
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0065d00
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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humanity
ethical-system
virulent-god
educational-system
confucianism
useful
monotheism
judaism
disaster
harm
islam
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Gore Vidal |
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a40ba8d
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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disaster
real
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Walker Percy |
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4bf47ec
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This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.
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disaster
paradise
hell
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Rebecca Solnit |
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4bcf6dc
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The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County. Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years. So ended The Day.
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war
disaster
nuclear-war
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Pat Frank |
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5a75012
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There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention- that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary- the sunshine, the memories, the future,- which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life.
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murder
mortality
depression
fear-no-evil
no-rhyme-or-reason
psalm-23
reason-or-rhyme
valley-of-the-shadow-of-death
senselessness
disaster
storms
fear-of-death
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Joseph Conrad |
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ead9b0f
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People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.
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people
twin-towers
september-11th
ground
world-trade-center
disaster
gore
september-11-attacks
fall
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Rebecca McNutt |
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5900aae
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"I've seen a lot of stuff... maybe I've seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I've seen what they can do, how evil they can be... I've seen the Holocaust and I've seen Jonestown, I've seen the Vietnam War and I've seen Hiroshima... I've seen the Chernobyl disaster... I've seen the World Trade Center attack... I've been alive too long, over a hundred years is a long time to be alive," Alecto sighed, staring at the cigarette he was holding."
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earth
grief
nature
human
death
chernobyl
hazardous
hippie
alive
smog
nuclear
jonestown
personification
kami
disaster
steel
pollution
holocaust
vietnam-war
lonely
sad
dying
evil
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Rebecca McNutt |
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8380434
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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
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human
leadership
error
disaster
imperfection
hierarchy
follow
mistakes
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Frank Herbert |
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927bf3a
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We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)...but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to prevent. We cannot wish that human beings were not subject to the forces of nature, including the mortality... we cannot wish for the seas to dry up, that the waves grow still, that the tectonic plates ceast to exist, that nature ceases to be beyond our abilities to predict and control... But the terms of that nature include such catastrophe and suffering, which leaves us with sorrow as not a problem to be solved but a fact. And it leaves us with compassion as the work we will never finish
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politics
disaster
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Rebecca Solnit |
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5d86c1f
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This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.
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television
signal
transmission
waves
disaster
tv
sign
fade
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Don DeLillo |
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e06431b
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The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.
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nature
disaster
ecology
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James S.A. Corey |