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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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All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. – Germaine Greer

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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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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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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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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