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“Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared”

Needs Art Of War Calamity Superstitious Omen

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.”

“Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.”

Knows Reason Simple Policy Politician Victim Blame Casts Invisible Visible Calamity Ballots Tariffs Beneficiaries

Book:Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

“What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.”

Middle Difficulty Blessed Refuge Calamity

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

Way Events Familiar Prophecy Persistent Calamity

Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?”

Needs Life Is Gone Our Lives Tragedy Disaster Mortals Artificial Primitive Quarrels Calamity Unbelief Harshness

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“Calamity is virtue's opportunity.”

Opportunity Virtue Calamity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.”

Joy Born Loses Common Virtue Conscience Foundation Calamity Antidote True Joy Vex

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Public calamity is a mighty leveller.”

Adversity Calamity

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.”

Ifs Years Desire Turns Thousand Patience Prophet Flood Distress Thousand Years Calamity Having Patience

Author:Hafez

“They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.”

Ifs Enough Laughing Adversity Bored Calamity

Book:The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx

Source: The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx

“At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.”

People World Next Loss Millions Essentials Crisis Cures Multiple Calamity

Author:Margaret Chan