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All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Why, this is the worst disaster since my election.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamand not make dreams your master; If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.
It is the old troubletoo late in dealing with Czechoslovakia, too late with Poland, and certainly too latewith Finland.It isalwaystoo late, or too little, orboth. That is the road to disaster.
It is on occasions such as these that I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest.
When you have had a glimpse of such a disaster as thisthe result is not necessarily disillusionment and cynicism.Curiously enough, the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
To live single isnot such a fearful disaster. I believe it may be a sign of a step forward in culture, education and the quality of life.
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