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calamity greater me-alone
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. Boyle Roche
calamity connected four hundred lived nearly necessity people plain
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. Donald Ray Pollock
calamity dead regional
There is about to be a big calamity if something isn't done soon. Without the regional centers, we are dead in the water.
calamity elect shall therefore
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
calamity chance equal humanity intact prove singular year
We have started a new year with a singular chance to prove that our humanity is intact and well -- a chance to prove that when calamity strikes, we are equal to the task, Kofi Annan
calamity crucial good poised special teams
Special teams have been good all the time. We just had a calamity in one game. Like anything else, we just need to be poised in crucial situations. Sylvester Croom
calamity lost percent unless
It wouldn't be a calamity unless we lost another 5 (percent) to 10 percent of capacity,
calamity civil discord fire strife
Stoking the fire of sectarian discord and civil strife will be a calamity for all,
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
discord engine extreme heart inequality introduce sorts wants
The extreme right divides, sorts out and rejects, ... It wants to introduce inequality and discrimination into the heart of the Constitution. It is an engine of exclusion, discord and violence. Jacques Chirac
discord managing
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
discord loose love sour strings
Nothing can be sour and sharpAs a love that has decayed --On the loose strings of the harpOnly discord can be made. William Story
discord loose love sharp sour strings
Nothing can be sour and sharp As a love that has decayed -- On the loose strings of the harp Only discord can be made.
discord lays
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. Edmund Spenser
discord people preaching racism religious seeds sow
People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go. Jakaya Kikwete
discord memory sow warning
Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family, Viktor Yushchenko
discord experience faces great modern monologue poet seem universal walt whitman
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus. Octavio Paz
discord forced harmony
Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. Oscar Wilde
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. Charles Dickens
fire wish mastery
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire mark malice
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. Charles Simmons
fire music-is stills
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Alan Jackson
fire should-have skulls
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m. David Sedaris
strife discord
He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it. Aesop
strife
Waight and measure take away strife. George Herbert
strife
There is no advance without strife. Philip Wylie
strife gates foe
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate. Menachem Begin
strife quarrels
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. Walter Savage Landor