"Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Amanda Ripley

#Men Quotes #Water Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.”
“I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.”
“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.”
“In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.”
“You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.”
“You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.”
“Christ is God clothed with human nature.”
“when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.”

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