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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
Great
Human Being
Obsessions
Calamity
Surely
Human
Being
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Integrity
Calamity
Test
I think I always gravitated more toward psychological studies and how people behave in a variety of circumstances. Most of the stories that I tell tend to feature women who get caught up in certain situations - end up in some calamity or other.
Sarah Weinman
Women
People
Think
Other
Circumstances
Tell
Some
More
Variety
Feature
Tend
Studies
Toward
Calamity
Most
Always
How
Caught
End
Up
Get
Behave
Situations
Stories
Psychological
Certain
Who
From an early age, I was very interested in all things fashion... and the change from tomboy to ultrafeminine glamour in old films. There was a Doris Day film I loved: 'Calamity Jane.'
Stella McCartney
Fashion
Day
Change
Age
Old
Films
All Things
Glamour
Calamity
Very
Loved
Jane
Interested
Film
Tomboy
Things
Early
Early Age
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
Susan Bysiewicz
Class
Frustration
Sense
Sympathy
Has-Been
Brought
Economic
Absolutely
No-One
Calamity
Ideas
Occupy
Been
Lot
Accountable
Wall
Wall Street
Middle
Movement
Middle Class
Held
Agree
Street
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Tony Kushner
Life
Relationship
You
Strange
About
Write
Writer
Calamity
Render
Material
Artist
Thing
Creepy
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil
Face
Calamity
Yield
Boldly
Her
When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.
William Godwin
Hope
Heart
Expectation
State
Out
Feared
Composure
Seems
Calamity
Look
Most
Principle
Within
Reduced
Arrived
Contracts
Itself
Which
Us
Certain
Shut
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.
George Monbiot
Environmental
Capitalism
Profit
Extract
Economic
Finite
Economic Growth
Calamity
Leads
Without
Inexorably
Perpetual
Quest
Effect
Accumulate
Capital
Planet
Aggregate
Growth
Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Opportunity
Partner
Both
Calamity
Learn
Jewish
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