"Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis."

-- Zygmunt Bauman

#Ice Quotes #World Quotes #Flu Quotes

“You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle...”
“Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.”

Source : "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.
“The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.”
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”
“When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.”
“Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.”
“In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.”
“I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”

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