calamities
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“We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays,” wrote Salman Rushdie in a memoir, adapting a somewhat similar remark by Samuel Beckett.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Today he is 79, and wears the calamities of the past more lightly than most of us could ever imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
No away fans, calamities in Europe and Derek McInnes' Old Firm debut as a manager.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause -- whether climate change or other factors," he said on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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