If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

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About Doug Larson

Doug Larson (February 10, 1926 – April 1, 2017) was a columnist and editor for the Door County Advocate (1953–1964) and wrote a daily column, "Doug's Dugout," for the Green Bay Press-Gazette (1964–1988), both Wisconsin-based newspapers. The column was originally syndicated through United Media under the title "Senator Soaper Says";...

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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

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If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

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More quotations tagged with “catastrophe”

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

—Edward Teller

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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.

—Thomas Cahill

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Somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

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