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"The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner."

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

"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."

"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."

"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"

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

"That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made."

"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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