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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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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Strangers
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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. – Germaine Greer

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tragedy

Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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Tragedy

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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Tragedy

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? – E. M. Cioran

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Tragedy

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Failure

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nations economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. – Tim Holden

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Success

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success. – Reed Hastings

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Success

Santa is our cultures only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. Its a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and thats a pity. – Chris Van Allsburg

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Christmas