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“when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars” William Shakespeare, King Lear

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Immanuel Kant argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways: by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice.” Henry Kissinger, On China

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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