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“Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.”

“My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.”

World Self Inspiration Mother Spirituality Strong Creative Mom Commitment Extraordinary New World Sense Of Self Very Deep Happy Mothers Day Devastation Strong Sense Of Self

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.”

Thinking Practice Teaching Atheist Psychotherapy Devastation

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.”

Looks War States United United States Pure Prepared Terrorism Kingdoms Firm Allies Be Prepared War On Terror Devastation United Kingdom Stand Firm War On Terrorism Malevolence

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.”

Thinking Moving Process Grief Plant Forests Ruins Grieving Devastation Lifeless

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.”

Individual Destruction Bullying Bully Trails Diagnosis Bullied Livelihood Serials Sociopath Devastation Indicators Clinicals Being Bullied

Author:Tim Field

“To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.”

Men Order Technology Pieces Century Worship Resources Contemporary Appeals Nonsense Twentieth Century Pagan Devastation Encroachment

Book:Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought

Source: Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought

“These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.”

Way Recovery Midst Devastation

Book:Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Source: Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

“I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.”

Fun Sports Term Lines Loss Poor Behinds Talking Nice Football Caught Come Up Rings Nfl Quarterback Best Football Devastation

Author:Deacon Jones

“The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me that they survived it and have not only maintained their identity, but are actually growing stronger in some ways. The situation is still very bad, especially in certain geographical areas, but there are more Indians going to school, more Indians becoming professional people, more Indians assuming full responsibility in our society. We have a long way to go, but we're making great strides.”

“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.”

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

People Giving Church Poor Environment Share Moon Disease Environmental Hunger Corruption Excited Oil Damn Pollution Rockets Leaks Devastation Affluent Pesticides Smog

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.”

Used Left Water Environment Land Becoming Blessing Resources Valuable Critical Treasure Ruins Pollution Devastation

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.”

Should Looks Has Beens Waiting Growth Animal Clear Environment Return Despair Bird Greed Forests Brutal Replaced Desolation Bait Devastation

Author:Peter Cundall

“Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.”

Two Earth Faces Water Environment Planets Thirds Crisis Invisible Dimensions Severe Our Planet Ecological Shortage Devastation Water Crisis

Book:Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit

Source: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit

“On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish Palestine, for reasons more humanitarian and religious than political. But the devastation caused by the war and the extermination of six million Jews radically changed all of our former attitudes. The idea of a Jewish homeland acquired an intense emotional appeal; I myself became an ardent Zionist.”

Source: The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild

“I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.”

Needs States Home Together Sadness Terrible News Aids Reports Working Together Heartbroken Hurricanes Katrina Devastation Hurricane Katrina Home State Times Like These

Author:Tim McGraw

“Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.”

Has Beens Eye Health Horror Disease Shadow Tragedy Focused Public Eye Devastation

Author:Alyssa Milano

“Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was crying and so was I and I tried to laugh it off but that turned into this enormous sob in front of everyone and I just thought, oh brilliant. I just found it terribly moving. Martin is just amazing in that last bit, it’s beautiful, that kind of incomprehension and devastation, it’s fantastic, with his sort of military shuffle at the grave. Fantastic.”

Kind Lasts Beautiful Moving Found House Bits Laughing Wife Feet Military Fronts Cry Brilliant Graves Enormous Fantastic Sat Devastation Freeman Amanda Shuffle Incomprehension

Author:Louise Brealey

“Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.”

“The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.”

Stills Reality Able Water Saws Imagine Wall Beach Devastation

Author:Connie Sellecca

“The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.”

“We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack, and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.”

Needs Government Causes Economic Concern Stress Rate Divorce Rising Combat Collapse Severe Earthquakes Turmoil Strengthening Devastation Tsunami Divorce Rates

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.”

Loss Views Effort Tears Resources March Devastation Time Effort

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty”

World Want Body Suffering Walks Flower Fine Creatures Details Senses Visible Frightened Aggression Haste Disruption Devastation Ferns

Author:Joan Halifax

“The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.”

War Left Behinds Terrible Paid Folly Saddam Left Behind Devastation Gulf War My Sympathy Kuwait

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself”

I Can Important Real Individual Situation Fate Oneself Empires Devastation

Book:Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)

“The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.”

Humans Would Be Earth Moving Planets Periods Transition Great Work Beneficial Millennium Devastation

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place that has experienced both persecution and destruction The reason Nagasaki is famous, is because it is rebuilt, because it has always survived.”

People Reason Known Destruction Survived Persecution Devastation

Author:Takashi Nagai

“A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It refuses to allow us to remain comfortable in our sin. It refuses to allow us to remain on the throne of our lives. And it leads us to a relationship with the only One who can perfectly love us, who can forgive all our sins, and who can make us into His likeness. Our encounter with His holiness is our devastation. And our devastation is our salvation.”

World Humans Sin Our Lives Comfortable Salvation Forgiving Refuse Encounters Holiness Impressed Thrones Chasing Devastation

Author:Todd Agnew

“The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.”

Has Beens Today Past Lost Tomorrow Sorrow Temples Magnificent Bricks Devastation Mortar Bricks And Mortar

Author:Gordon Wright

“The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.”

“The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.”

Ends States Order Fighting Development Conflict Members Disease Unions Aids Continents Hiv Contagious Sustainable Development Devastation Armed Conflict African Union

Author:Omar Bongo

“Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.”

Men Giving Looks Made Feelings Building Empty Miles Stomach Squares Devastation Hiroshima

Author:Wilfred Burchett

“We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.”

World Trade Obvious Horrible Smoke Devastation World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Hugh Shelton

“Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.”

Way Wisdom Love Is Our Relationship Mars Devastation

Author:David Jeremiah

“PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.”

People World Shows Belief Quiet Determination Hatred Chosen Performing Heroism Better Place Tribute Devastation

Author:Michael Arad

“The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.”

Emotion Perceive Plague Ruthless Narcissist Devastation Omnipotent Verdict Unfathomable Capricious Godlike Sadistic Scruples Omniscient

Author:Sam Vaknin

“Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it.”

Ifs Looks Persons Stills Ends Hard Pain Sides Love Is Imagine Tears Hard Work Heartache Each Day Worth It Glimpse Ups & Downs Only Love Your Side Sweet Love Sweetheart Devastation

Author:Nicole Williams

“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.”

Poverty Knowledge Ignorance Tragedy Illness Bliss Stem Devastation Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author:Jim Rohn

“It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.”

Desire Fire Glory Towns Soldier Breasts Conquest Acquisition Devastation Siege

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.”

Tree Mountain Mercy Towns Spread Devastation

Author:Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.”

Enough Hate Approach Garden Handle Weed Mentality Negativity Devastation

Author:Jim Rohn

“Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.”

“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”

Long War Romance Culture Violence Crime Environmental Terror Torn American Culture Devastation Havoc

Author:Katherine Dunn

“This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say, 'I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generations of tomorrow.'”

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