"People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it."

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Source : "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

Amanda Ripley

#Military Quotes #Destiny Quotes #People Quotes

“The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.”

Source : William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.25
“And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.”
“Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.”
“I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.”
“Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”
“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”
“It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.”

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