"Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes."

-- Rosalia de Castro

#Breakthrough Quotes #Catastrophe Quotes

“High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.”
“In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.”
“I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.”
“I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless â€“ and timely.”
“The sunlight ... that strikes Earthâ€™s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.”
“He who will travel far spares his steed.”
“I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.”
“When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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