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“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
“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
“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
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“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
“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
“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
“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
“the one way of making people hang together is to give 'em a spell of plague.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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