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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Sun Tzu
You
Fight
Yourself
Enemy
Hundred
Battles
Disaster
Know
Know Yourself
Without
Your
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life
Nature
Technology
Natural
Mercy
Big
Our
Once
Earth
Easier
Inventions
Wipe
Takes
Remind
Disaster
Make
Still
Than
Modern
Just
Modern Life
Just One
Natural Disaster
Us
Much
Even
Away
Here
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Technology
Ignorance
Science
Power
Science And Technology
Our
Later
Faces
No-One
Almost
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Disaster
Also
Arranged
Understands
Mixture
Up
Get
Blow
Going
While
Might
Away
Prescription
Things
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk
You
Change
People
Some People
Embrace
Some
Like
Disaster
Alternative
Need
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Survival
Balance
People
Luck
Wire
Between
Disaster
Very
Many
Keep
Thin
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Daisaku Ikeda
Hope
Heart
Courage
Compassion
Accident
Destroy
Highest
Disaster
Qualities
Greater
Tragic
Than
Human
Human Qualities
Even
Treasures
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
Charles Krauthammer
Rights
World
Better
Human Rights
Harmful
Other
Worse
Would
Would-Be
Absence
Council
Better Off
Disaster
Look
Anti-Semitic
Off
Than
Norms
Disgraceful
Human
Conflicts
Which
Creates
Among
Things
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Petra Nemcova
Knowledge
Natural
Lost
Natural Disasters
Enough
We Cannot
Ourselves
Arm
Disaster
Disasters
Stop
Cannot
Many
Preparedness
Lives
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren Buffett
Life
You
Age
Care
Life Is A
Big
Nobody
Disaster
Well
How
Account
dont Care
Get
Bank
Bank Account
Your
Thinks
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen Hawking
Life
War
Thought
Other
Virus
Earth
Dangers
Out
Risk
Wiped
Genetically
Disaster
Global
Being
Engineered
Sudden
Nuclear
Nuclear War
When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Home
Rebuild
Recover
Disaster
House
Livelihood
Rebuilding
Lives
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
Anthony Bourdain
Time
Long
Long Time
Perfect
Long Time Ago
Leads
Disaster
Terrible
Learned
Always
Times
Trying
Vacation
As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.
Asa Hutchinson
Depression
Great
Key
Recipe
President
Great Depression
Signed
Hoover
Component
Economic
Recovery
Outset
Economic Recovery
Disaster
Learned
Trade
Tariff
Vibrant
After
International
International Trade
Herbert
Herbert Hoover
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Cause
Weakness
Seeking
Above
Atrocity
Between
Disaster
Am
Effect
Establish
Sequence
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Future
You
Vote
People
World
Politician
Politicians
Recipe
About
Disaster
Making
Making Decisions
Scientifically
Office
Just
Literate
Whether
Decisions
Mean
Who
Illiterate
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great
You
Soul
Courage
Mend
Take
Disaster
Beg
Brave
Even
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
Molly Ivins
Truth
Food
People
Argument
Country
Nation
Own
Society
Hunt
Guns
Rational
Crowded
Longer
Disaster
Access
Continuing
Frontier
Which
Urban
Letting
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
Pope Francis
Life
God
You
Try
Every
Else
Everyone
Destroyed
Has-Been
Must
Seek
Disaster
Dogmatic
Been
Person
Human
Anything
Vices
Anything Else
Human Life
Certainty
Even
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney
Time
Myself
Business
Ride
Mind
Corner
Drawing
Out
Brother
Seemed
Onto
Disaster
Around
Were
Years
Years Ago
Train
Mickey
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Manhattan
Hollywood
Pad
Lowest
Fortunes
Right
Roy
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War
Result
Humiliation
Will
Every
Easy
Attempt
Disaster
Safe
Make
No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.
Ginger Zee
Natural
Matter
Perspective
Back
Wildfire
Come
Disaster
Greater
Always
Covered
Whether
Natural Disaster
Much
Flood
If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
Jack Ma
Work
Buy
You
Wonderful
Money
Matter
Will
Healthy
Medicine
Earth
Bad
Hospital
Put
Environment
Disaster
Make
Without
How
How Much
Healthy Environment
How Much Money
Much
Should
Hard
Why
There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
Condoleezza Rice
Politics
You
Debate
Values
Power
Draw
Those
Would
Fine
Sharp
Between
Polarized
Disaster
Academic
Devoted
Policy
Principled
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Line
Norms
American
May
Just
American Foreign Policy
Either
Realist
View
American Values
Who
Based
Universal
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George McGovern
War
Good
Me
Thought
Say
About
Disaster
Very
Anything
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Hard
Utter
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
History
State
Mischief
Main
Main Source
Disaster
Course
Been
Source
Often
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
Marsha Blackburn
Natural
Community
Strangers
Complete
Strikes
Neighbors
Out
Disaster
Reach
Hand
Friends
Natural Disaster
Lend
Your
Helping
Helping Hand
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