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Rebecca West

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."

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"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."

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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."

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"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

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"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."

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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

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"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."

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"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."

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"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."

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