Evan Osnos Quotes
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
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If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
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When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.
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Nobody has been killed or seriously injured yet, but that's the reason we're doing the recall to make sure that doesn't happen, ... Any recall we do we would like to do it before anybody gets seriously injured, that's the goal.
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For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?
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Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.
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I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
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My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
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The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.
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Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
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Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
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Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.
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In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
