Earl Browder

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

American Activist

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

American Clergyman

Margaret Chan

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

Chinese Public Servant

Antonio Guterres

The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.

Portuguese Politician

Porter Stansberry

By buying off the bottom in the real estate markets, I'm doing the best I can to protect myself from any future calamity. Time will tell whether it will work.

American Publisher

Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Irish Poet

Sydney Smith

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

English Clergyman

Bill Watterson

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

American Cartoonist

Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Roman Poet

Virgil

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Use 'calamity' for events more destructive than 'accidents' but less than 'apocalypses'.

Severity Scale

'Calamity' often implies that people were harmed or are in distress.

Human Suffering

Typically not used for personal troubles unless they're extremely severe, affecting many.

Not Personal

Suitable in contexts such as business, markets, or economy crashes.

Economic Context

Implies widespread damage, not confined to one individual or a small group.

Wide Impact

Some calamities, like economic crises, can develop gradually over time.

Not Always Immediate

 world around us this is hard to teach there's what we would love students to retain even if they don't go into mathematical fields this is also something that the way we teach it in the US all but ensures they won't retain it so I like talk about why that is why that's such a calamity for society what can do about it and to close with why this is an amazing time to be a math

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 of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people. He would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure

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 what we call deadpool when you just can't get water out of the lake anymore and that would be an absolute disaster for millions of people downstream that is a calamity that we cannot afford to let happen and that's sort of what i'm dedicating my life to is trying to help us work through these problems the colorado

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 an entirely unrelated global calamity and tell the other person that they shouldn't care about whatever they care about, because they should care about that instead. That world would suck, right? Like, your sister borrows five dollars from you, you ask for it back,

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 Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric. However, I trust that by that day, we shall have passed this present financial calamity.

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 In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one. And because the world is becoming now

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 characterized by a nation versus nation very fragile standoff and basically we lived for all those years and some might argue that we still do in a situation of being on the brink literally of an apocalyptic planetary calamity

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 The settlement begins in a mythical state of isolation, but is gradually exposed to the outside world, facing multiple calamities along the way. As years pass, characters grow old and die, only to return as ghosts,

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 Sounds straightforward, right? You might even think it'd be easy, given that I just said the vast majority of activity on Twitter puts no one in harm's way. Why spend so much time searching for potential calamities

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 calamity with his unrivaled knowledge of these remote regions Nisar is ideally qualified to lead a team of mountain survival experts and deliver aid directly to those most in need

Calamity

A very serious event causing damage and suffering.

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A disastrous situation or event.

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