#amity

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. ↗

— Robert Bly

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. ↗

— Hesiod

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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. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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

— Sydney Smith

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