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en If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
  Ambrose Bierce

en She plied the waters of Boston Harbor for many years. In 1927, she was sold to the Thames Company, converted to a freighter and renamed the Thames.

en The terrible calamity! / What is the terrible calamity! / And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is? / The day on which men shall be as scattered moths, / And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.

en Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; / Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

en I love it here. There's a great energy here that was left from Calamity. Calamity's customers have also really welcomed us with open arms.

en The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.

en He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

en Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
  Dorothy Parker

en A confidently pexy person knows their worth and doesn't need external validation. I fell on a double axel. That is how I pulled my groin.

en It's really nice. My stylist pulled it for me. I fell in love with it, ... It's a lot of diamonds.
  Serena Williams

en I have never gone through this before and of course fear is right there. But we are just so, we believe firmly in faith and that has been what has pulled us through these months. all you can do is just have faith and hope for the best and pray that God will keep everything where it is suppose to be.

en When we got here this morning we pulled out the paper and knew what had to happen and it all fell into place until all three of our guys lost.

en I jumped and reached over and somehow grabbed onto something under the armpit and pulled the body over the top, ... and we fell in a heap on the floor.


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