“Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.”
Laurence Gonzales
“Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!”
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Richard Feynman
“I don't think the city has done nearly enough for disasters --manmade or natural. In the wake of Katrina I want to take a look at our evacuations at our ability to transport the elderly and infirm ... at triage possibilities.”
Jack Weiss
“It also pays dividends for our state. When we have some type of national disaster or a manmade disaster, we can get video fairly quickly.”
Charles Morgan
“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.”
Witold Rybczynski
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“...the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the mazed worldBy their increase, now knows not which is which.”
William Shakespeare
