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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."

"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."

"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."

"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."

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

"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."

"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."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
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"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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