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Letter "C" » calamity
«The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to»
«We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.»
«Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Keywords:
bolt,
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calamity,
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elicits,
furnace,
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ore,
ores,
produced,
productive,
purest,
thunder
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
age of,
Age of Reason,
calamity,
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For some,
fussed,
fussing,
grotesques,
growing,
importance,
joyless,
mysterious,
obscene,
passed,
real life,
so far,
staying,
The Age,
thirty,
without reasoning
«Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.»
Author: Kofi Annan
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About:
Nations,
Right
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Keywords:
all too,
calamity,
crises,
humanitarian,
Human rights,
national,
separate,
upheld,
uphold,
upholding,
upholds,
walls
«Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.»
«Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.»
«When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.»