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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
Wisdom
Our
Must
Prevent
Disasters
Call
Greater
Falling
Expect
Prudence
Energies
Sent
Forth
Us
Teach
Even
Defeats
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
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan
War
Natural
People
World
Bad Things
Natural Disasters
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Those
Out
Bad
Arise
Like
Disasters
Always
Doing
Disease
Situations
Happen
Stories
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Things
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Boris Johnson
Myself
Opportunities
Indeed
Only
Disasters
Fresh
Discovered
Friends
It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?
John Morgridge
Health
You
Challenges
Generation
Natural
Care
Will
Parents
Big
Natural Disasters
Our
Our Generation
Those
Battles
Willing
Clean
Clean Up
True
Budget
Global
Disasters
Mess
Global Warming
Health Care
Ready
Left
Up
Pollution
Unfortunately
Warming
Your
Yours
Wars
Now
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
Paul Di Filippo
Death
Good
Age
Natural
Destruction
Old
Sickness
Three
Old Age
Natural Disasters
Good Place
Pretty
Pretty Good
Betrayal
More
Potential
Buddha
Tale
Disasters
Woke
Tragic
Up
Heartbreak
Get
Crafting
Human
Place
Waste
Specific
Start
Need
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou
You
Humanity
World
Circumstances
Bad
Must
Citizens
Obliged
Allow
Remind
Like
Global
Disasters
Know
Reduce
Reduced
Human
Anything
Decide
Whether
Which
Us
Your
Inheritance
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Work
Natural
National
Natural Disasters
Recovery
Attention
Long-Term
Headlines
Disasters
Short-Term
While
Capture
Rebuilding
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
Man
Rain
Miseries
Disasters
Accepting
Cow
Stoicism
Conformist
Average
Average Man
Standing
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
Eduardo Galeano
Nature
Natural
Victim
Disasters
Executioner
Were
We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Today
Change
Better
Increase
On The Contrary
Severity
Able
Impact
Droughts
Disasters
Frequency
Reduce
Climate
Equipped
Climate Change
Contrary
May
Stop
Happening
Storms
Them
Prepare
Floods
I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.
Liam Payne
Me
Girl
Cheating
Singing
Few
Way
Dating
Inspiration
Factor
River
Had
Along
Disasters
Cry
She
Because
Unfaithful
Her
In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.
Marsha Blackburn
Natural
World
Dangerous
Sometimes
Hatred
Natural Disasters
Live
Way
Some
Almost
Disasters
Overwhelm
Where
Us
Help
Each
Violence
As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).
Shinzo Abe
Experience
Natural
Better
Country
Build
Natural Disasters
Other
Back
Earthquakes
Risk
Prevention
Investment
Emphasizing
Disaster
Disasters
Policy
Prioritize
Reduction
Japan
Therefore
Believes
Coping
Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.
Zac Posen
Best
Total
Some
About
Kitchen
Through
Come
Disasters
Discoveries
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp
Relationship
You
Treat
Simple
Triviality
Never
Disaster
Disasters
Were
Achieving
Formula
Successful
Should
Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.
Annalee Newitz
Health
Natural
Will
Natural Disasters
Engineering
Cities
Could
Allow
Drives
Calamity
Disasters
Underground
Safer
Healthier
Survive
Models
Predictive
Public
To Survive
Plan
Us
Public Health
Radiation
Using
Even
Designers
Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their own versions of the prosperity gospel. This is a belief that says if you think positively and make affirmations, God will reward you with financial success and good health.
Anthea Butler
Success
God
Health
Good
Good Health
You
Natural
People
Financial
Prosperity
Reward
Will
Own
Natural Disasters
Think
Positively
Says
Worst
Worst Kind
Crises
Harvey
Kind
Hurricane
Like
Disasters
Make
Gospel
Trump
Versions
Who
Belief
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.
Colleen Hanabusa
Rights
Natural
Value
Free
Important
Natural Disasters
Believe
Appropriate
Those
Crisis
Civil
Constitutional
Lawful
Emergencies
Constitutional Rights
Remain
Individuals
Disasters
Exercise
Provide
Times
Persons
Manner
Reassurance
Specific
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
Great
Marriage
Treat
Secret
Great Secret
Disasters
None
Successful
Incidents
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
Mo Ibrahim
You
People
Genocide
Think
AIDS
Disasters
Africa
Famine
Ask
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Future
Natural
Strong
Better
Will
Natural Disasters
Economy
Disasters
Island
Leave
Handle
Durable
Rican
Prepared
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.
Seth Shostak
Best
Money
Building
Setting
Way
Danger
Earthquakes
Ourselves
Hurricanes
Clean
Clean Up
Droughts
Disasters
Still
Up
Happen
Afterwards
Against
Aside
Codes
Floods
Cope
Levees
Eliminate
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
Yehuda Berg
Food
Change
Natural
Problem
Natural Disasters
Increasing
Our
Resources
Evidence
Rapidly
Food Chain
Beat
Disasters
Toxic
Climate
Climate Change
Continue
Perpetuating
Same
Irreparable
Natural Resources
Much
Chain
Keep
Waste
Why
Marching
Alarming
Harm
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
Aleqa Hammond
Environmental
Will
Summer
High
Risk
Arctic
Put
Pole
Come
Disasters
Years
Itself
Very
North
North Pole
Might
Sea
It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.
Andrew Mitchell
Future
Challenges
Meet
System
Vital
Entire
Disasters
Ready
International
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