Quote by Germaine Greer
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even tho

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. – Germaine Greer

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strength
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it wont be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. – Germaine Greer

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Drugs
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other peoples reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. – Germaine Greer

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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? – George Eliot

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Tragedy

The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods checks has bounced. – Gilbert Adair

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Tragedy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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Tragedy

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy

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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. – Author Unknown

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Columbus Day

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is — a vice? – Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb “Idleness is the beginning of all v

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Psychology

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. – Susan Anton

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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Memorial Day