Eliot Spitzer

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

American Lawyer

Charles Albert Gobat

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.

Swiss Lawyer

Wole Soyinka

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Nigerian Dramatist

Hilary Mantel

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

English Writer

John Muir

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

American Environmentalist

Isabel Allende

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Chilean Writer

Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

American Author

Augustus Sol Invictus

I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.

American Activist

Camille Claudel

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

French Sculptor

Walter Mercado

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

Puerto Rican Celebrity

Used to describe events that dramatically alter life or landscape.

Massive Impact

Implies harmful outcomes, not just any big change.

Negative Connotation

Can be metaphorical, referring to events that feel like disasters.

Not Always Literal

Focuses on natural earth changes, often sudden and violent.

Geological Events

While it can mean flood, it also includes other earth-based disasters.

Not Just Water

Used in scientific discussion of the earth's history and future.

Scientific Context

Refers to major events changing societies or politics.

Historical Events

Symbolizes the abrupt end of a significant period.

End of Eras

Indicates swift, perhaps unexpected, upheavals in social structures.

Sudden Changes

 every single one of the millions of species alive today perhaps a thousand others have perished most of them died out in everyday competition with other life-forms but many of them were swept away vast cataclysms overwhelmed the

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 exhaustion cataclysm searches for these casualties when it's so hot that even it seeks relief from the burning surface when it can at first it forages randomly over the sand but when it finds its exhausted prey

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 but one of his other sons remained and successfully rallied the city’s defenses. For his military skill, he became the ninth Inca ruler, assuming the name of Pachacuti, or "Cataclysm."

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 But we should not lose hope. Humanity has enormous resources under its command, and by applying them wisely, we can still prevent ecological cataclysm. Let's talk numbers.