- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eruption Quotes
On pressure breaking into sudden, visible change.
These eruption quotes move between the literal and the political: one recalls climbing an actively erupting Stromboli at night, while another traces the word to the 'eruption of violence in Ukraine' during years of reporting in the region.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano that eventually caused the pyroclastic surge that swept over Pompeii and destroyed it for good. But also, they had to face the effects of a very extreme earthquake and a tidal wave that swept in from the Bay of Naples.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
During two decades, on and off, reporting in Russia and the post-Soviet states - in the turbulent '90s, the wealthy but depressing aughts and, finally, during the eruption of violence in Ukraine - I occasionally heard people talk about how 'the Americans' wanted this or that political outcome.
- Gas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020