"Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months."

-- James Surowiecki

#Cities Quotes #Matter Quotes #Months Quotes

“It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed.”
“I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasnâ€™t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.”
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
“Ill-gotten gains work evil.”
“Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.”
“When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.”
“The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.”

Source : "Lib Dems vow to block Tory welfare cuts plan in any coalition talks" by Nicholas Watt, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.
“I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.”

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