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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. — Irwin Redlener
The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the… — Irwin Redlener
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large… — Jack Horner
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. — Jamais Cascio
What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a… — Yves Behar
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does. — Mark Pagel
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the… — Mark Pagel
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large. — Tan Le
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and… — Ian Goldin
Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all… — Hugo Chavez
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school. — Sara Canning
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to… — Karan Johar
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation… — Arthur Penn
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large… — Charlie Pierce
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by… — Pallam Raju
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear,… — Alain de Botton
What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost,… — Henry B. Eyring
I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen… — Roberto Azevedo
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. — Sean Penn
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even… — John Naisbitt
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within… — Paul Auster
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer… — Adam Davidson
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The… — Paul Theroux

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