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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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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. – Germaine Greer

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Security
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Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves. – Germaine Greer

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sad
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. – Germaine Greer

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Women
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Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert

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

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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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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. – Pablo Casals

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Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers… are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears. – Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), Der Rabbi Von Bacharach

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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Brendan Francis

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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. – Marie de France

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