"Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Amanda Ripley

#Government Quotes #Panic Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance.”

Source : "Remembered: Brave Lynda Bellingham's refreshing honesty and humour in the face of terminal cancer" by Zoe Shenton, www.mirror.co.uk. October 20, 2014.
“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.”

Source : "Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86" by Bruce Weber and Julie Rehmeyer, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2014.
“I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.”

Source : "Under Ali Krieger's uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. June 25, 2015.
“I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?”
“I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.”
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”
“Man has not a greater enemy than himself.”

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