"The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response,"

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Source : "Chile's earthquake was horrible - but it could have been so much worse" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2010.

Cameron Sinclair

#Night Quotes #Giving Quotes #President Quotes

“I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship”
“Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me”
“I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?”
“People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.”
“I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”
“In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.”
“A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.”
“As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.”

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