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GARY F EVANS... I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be on...
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DON MURRAY What has occurred is that supply swelled as our domestic refinery capacity came back on line after r...
TRILBY LUNDBERG Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS Israel's violent incursion — as well as the Palestinian actions carried out in response — risk des...
IBRAHIM GAMBARI Our current situation now is not a good situation. We have these ongoing and widespread outbreaks.
DR. JULIE GERBERDING It's reasonable to expect ongoing high levels of hurricane activity for many years to come and more ...
GERRY BELL It was obvious we were stalling like a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, ... not going anywhere,...
FELIPE ALOU When we plugged in (the data) from that rainfall from the 1996 flood, we achieved an elevation in ex...
KURT BAUMANN It's going to be an ongoing up-and-down situation for as far ahead as the eye can see. None of it is...
EARL BLACK We see no conflict. We have had our assembly annually, and it will definitely go ahead as planned th...
KARL JOHNSON I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN The military have sealed off the area. It is very, very serious -- it's really adding petrol to an o...
HAGRUP HAUKLAND We have some temporary patches to keep the water out, and in the middle of the month we will probabl...
JOE LEVERONI When we're in an emergency situation, such as we were, retailers have the obligation not to increase...
DEBORAH HAGAN This wasn't Flood Katrina. This was Hurricane Katrina.
JACOB RAY It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.
DON LYNN We are not redeploying units/personnel for the hurricane relief efforts as all the units/personnel h...
STEVE BOYLAN It was a truly frightening moment because we knew the potential danger we were in especially as we w...
JOE CADDICK I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insuranc...
RON DESANTIS Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of a...
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EVAN RACHEL WOOD Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to sh...
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BARRY HANNAH Photographs of flood victims' bodies is part of the overall coverage of Hurricane Katrina. When choo...
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LILLIAN S. VILORIA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If the situation in Iraq has not improved, and if the hurricane causes an economic downturn, then Re...
DAN SCHNUR We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurri...
JOHN HOPPER We have an ongoing responsibility to the animals.
MARGARET DODD We were in the process of executing a federal search warrant when this happened. It's all part of an...
GARY DAVIDSON Even though the hurricane was a long way away from us, it's still having an impact.
SEAN COMEY There were search warrants executed today in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation. Sinc...
BRYAN SIERRA I don't think we'll ever be really out of danger. It'll flood again, even with the (completion of th...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA Cabbage palms don't blow over if it's not a major hurricane. We have to be able to meet somewhere in...
NATHAN STOUT They have taken advantage of the Hurricane Katrina situation to jack up those profits,
MAURICE HINCHEY The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
TOM DEMPSEY Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
MASON COOLEY It's recovering an important piece of cultural history. It's so much of the roots of what we think o...
DAYNA GOLDFINE We were able to respond to this hurricane and begin our support missions as quickly as we always hav...
TIM POWELL He screwed up, and both [former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director] Michael Brown and [Hom...
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JOHN BUTLER We would have hurricane-force winds, we would have flooding, heavy rain and tornados as an offshoot.
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MAX MAYFIELD It is an extremely precarious situation, and we remain worried, ... The situation is preoccupying an...
JAKOB KELLENBERGER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG It's been like living in the middle of a hurricane that keeps going and going.
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RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
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DWIGHT FREENEY At the moment, post-hurricane, we have to view fiscal policy as being turned to be even more pro-act...
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IN THE MAKING we
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HAROLD MARTIN aprés moi le déluge
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MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI