The lesson of disasters, natural and manmade, is that we generally rebuild more or less what was there. The reasons for this are probably mainly pragmatic (existing property ownership, buried infrastructure) but also perhaps sentimental: the urge to recreate what had been destroyed, to rebuild the world we knew.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physic... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire in... ELIZABETH RYAN The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. 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VICENTE FOX Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA There's a national imperative to rebuild that infrastructure, ... We've got half-a-dozen critical in... BERNARD WEINSTEIN There's a national imperative to rebuild that infrastructure, ... We've got half-a-dozen critical in... BERNARD WEINSTEIN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA We emerged to find an alien landscape. We bound our wounds, we buried our dead, and we commenced to ... 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RUSS PAULSEN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. We were totally destroyed, ... We're planning to put them in another facility until we can rebuild. MOBY We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Well we are going to rebuild this location here. The front part of the building looks like it is goi... LARRY KUHN We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ... MARKUS ZUSAK MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization wit... CHUCK HURLEY What Lee started was a city based on cars, and that has not changed in this administration's way of ... ANSTRESS FARWELL The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN We are going to rebuild New Orleans more or less where it is, so we start out with a lot of constrai... DONALD KETTL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE There aren't the types of resources to rebuild this city in the billions of dollars. I don't know th... KIM BOYLE Freedom is also to understand that what the world thinks of us is less important for our well-being ... LUIGINA SGARRO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take owner... DAN ARIELY And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had ... WILLIAM SCRANTON We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and sch... JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We never could have undertaken something like this if we had not made the commitment to rebuild the ... ALISON HARRIS All of us are pretty outraged by what has not happened. There seems to be unlimited money for the wa... GREG GALLUZZO Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild. TERRY BROOKS We must encourage the commercialization of technologies that are compatible with existing infrastruc... JAMES WOOLSEY Our vision is to rebuild Eastgate better than what it was, JACKSON FIVE We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they... DAVID BONDY I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI... DEREK LANDY Living and working on the Gulf Coast, we know what a challenge it is to rebuild, and we wanted an op... BOBBY TAYLOR We are hopeful that the company will lay out more conservative guidance for 2002 as a means to rebui... HOLLY BECKER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their eco... PAT ROBERTS Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso... F. H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso... FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these re... FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reas... FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso... FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY Well, we got wiped out in Camille, but we rebuild. We love it here. And we'll rebuild again. BRIT HUME We have to rebuild the system. LAURIE PARKER
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