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First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. Bruce Jackson

First Aid Those Would General Outpouring Magnitude Disaster Without Understand Caused Huge Happened Us Help Specific Images

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. Bruce Jackson

Writer Schoolteacher

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. Bruce Jackson

History Important Lesson Those About New Perhaps Most Important Lesson Documents Historians Survive The Most Important Social Whom Whose Belongs

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was. Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else. Bruce Jackson

You Important Else Photographs See Web Source Nowhere

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world. Bruce Jackson

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes. C. Everett Koop

You Snake Dangers Mention Poisoning Talk Snakes

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it. C. Everett Koop

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. C. Everett Koop

Health Great People Care Country Group Neglected Find Fact Perhaps Most Industry Health Care Because Role Being Children Form Them Hard Aware Largely Play

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. C. Everett Koop

Health You Marry Kinds Literacy Things

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. C. Everett Koop

Good Home Better Parents Year Sense Changed Nutritional Kid Some Entire Studies Between California Course Becomes Intake Educational Been Hispanic Done Where Process Bridge

I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way. Carl Forti

Way Tried Stay Scenes Always Intend Behind Keep

I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time. Carl Forti

Time TV

I think women are too valuable to be in combat. Caspar Weinberger

Women Valuable Think Too Combat Women Are

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience. Caspar Weinberger

Soul Nation Our Rests Also Should Conscience Here

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. Charles Buxton

Good You Criticism Rule Carving Never Knife Spoon Holds Cut

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. Charles Buxton

Pleasant Pleasures Make Them

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome. Charles L. Evans

Time Inflation Think Increase Our Worrisome Would Would-Be Tried Objective Rates Over Period Were Interest Interest Rates

Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done. Charles L. Evans

Time Inflation Hero Tough Took Tremendous Back System Federal Federal Reserve Had He Economy Very American Done American Economy Break Paul Double-Digit Helped Actions Reserve

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad. Charles L. Evans

Inflation Situation Bad About Rise Stuck Economy Know Well Deal How Doing Begins Much Zero

If the national economy improves, Chicago will improve. Charles L. Evans

Will National Economy Chicago National Economy Improve Improves

I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates. Charles L. Evans

History You Believe Rates Fed Know Times The History Of Raise Need

I think that sharing information about our economies, the way that the central banks do in Basel and other forums, is quite useful. But it's sharing information. It's not coordinating policy. It's not coordinating a single monetary policy. Charles L. Evans

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