alam Quotes and Quotations
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alam Quotes and Quotations
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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. Joseph Addison | top
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To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami. Mario Batali | top
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce | top
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Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia. Hassanal Bolkiah | top
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. Earl Browder | top
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. Winston Churchill | top
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Eldridge Cleaver | top
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A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. John Coleman | top
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. William Davenant | top
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass | top
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick | top
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith | top
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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. Hesiod | top
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Horace | top
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! Lyndon B. Johnson | top
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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. Peter Lombard | top
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During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. Frederick Reines | top
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith | top
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I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area. Willie Stargell | top
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Publilius Syrus | top
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. Sun Tzu | top
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Crises are challenges, not calamities. Guy Verhofstadt | top
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? Virgil | top
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. Virgil | top
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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. Bill Watterson | top
