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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

Other quotes by Germaine Greer

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. – Germaine Greer

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War
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Germaine Greer
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English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. – Germaine Greer

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Men
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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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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

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

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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

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

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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. – Gaston Bachelard

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Inner Child

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. – Muhammad Ali

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Life

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort. – Bill Kristol

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Leadership

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, dont sit in the dark hiding. Its easy to hide and shout and waste peoples time. – Billy Connolly

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Time