"Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated."

-- Naomi Klein

#Stress Quotes #Cities Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
“I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.”
“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.”
“From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.”
“It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached”

Source : David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”
“With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”
“Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.”

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