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Amanda Ripley

"We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do if a nuclear bomb went off in their city. And that's just not true. Most people would survive most terrorist nuclear attacks because the bombs would likely be much smaller than those we were dealing with in the Cold War."

Source : "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

Amanda Ripley

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”
“I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.”
“Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'”
“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)
“We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.”

Source : "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class" by Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.
“There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.”
“Itâ€™s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.”
“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.367, Oxford University Press, USA

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