"When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005,……" — Peter Singer
"When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200 patients. Three days after the hurricane hit, the hospital had no electricity, the water supply had failed, and toilets could no longer be flushed. Some patients who were dependent on ventilators died."
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198 Quotes by Peter Singer
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More August Quotes
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn…
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth…
— Trey Anastasio
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of…
— J. William Fulbright
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
— Natalie Babbitt
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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