"There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami."

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Source : "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.

David Nabarro

#Dying Quotes #Disease Quotes #Chance Quotes

“In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.”
“Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.”
“In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'”
“One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.”
“We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so, rather than fear the surrounding culture, and the surrounding cities which predictably results in a bunker mentality the emerging congregation embraces the culture and expects to find God in it" the emerging congregation embraces the culture recognizing that its not all pretty but it embraces the culture and even then expects to find god in it because there is nowhere god isn't. there are many places where the church isn't but I don't think that means there are places where god isn't.”
“Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
“There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.”
“I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.”

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