After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.

John Crowley

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Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard—the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.

Sue Miller

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The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.

Floriano Martins

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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Vera Nazarian

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Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time --

'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Vera Nazarian

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The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

Tom Robbins

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Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

Criss Jami

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Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Vernor Vinge

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."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

Rebecca Solnit

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