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Globally, investment in hydro-meteorological services could lead to a realization of up to $30 billion per year in increased economic productivity and cut losses from disasters by up to $2 billion. – Daniel Kull	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have 250 grief mentors from air disasters dating back to 1958 -- private, military and commercial air disasters, this gives people an opportunity to share what they went through with somebody else and also provide hope for them. – Heidi Snow	Found on CNN 9 years ago
When the world is changing so fast, and we are facing a lot of disasters, unless we have some very ambitious targets, we won't be able to fix things. – Harjeet Singh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are disasters of technique and some things that are just bad, we made headcheese from Iceland and it was terrible. We call those milkshake meals because even after you eat, you need to go out after for a milkshake. – Jesse Friedman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I can't afford to rent anywhere else, every time it rains I pray to God for it to stop. But what can I do ? Even a short downpour can leave the capital flooded as piles of rubbish on the streets and debris filled canals block drains, which exacerbates flooding. Natural disasters linked to climate change will only get more frequent and extreme in the future, experts say. Decades of deforestation have left Haiti even more exposed to natural disasters, with less than three percent of its original forest cover still intact, according to the UNDP. This causes soil erosion and reduces the ability of soil to retain water, making Haiti more vulnerable to flooding and landslides. During heavy rainfall, there are few trees to stop water washing down the bare mountains. While 5.5 million tree seedlings have been planted in Haiti by the UNDP since 2010, not enough has been done to stop people cutting down trees in the first place. Selling charcoal, which comes from burning wood, is used for cooking and is a key source of income for many Haitians living in the countryside. . – Angelique Hilaire	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In Haiti, it's the back-to-back accumulation and combination of disasters that puts pressure on the government and the people. – Thomas Pitaud	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Natural disasters displace three to 10 times more people than all conflicts and war in the world combined. – Jan Egeland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When there are important disasters, and people have significant needs, that is the right thing for corporations to do. – Reynolds American	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes, right through to hull losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes right through to hull-losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This experience reminds us that Indonesia is a place prone to natural disasters, we have to prepare when disaster comes, so we can mitigate it fast and right. – Zaini Abdullah	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis. – Jan Egeland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest. – Jan Egeland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. – Douglas MacArthur	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. – Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life	added by anonymous 13 years ago
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. – Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. – Sir Harold George Nicolson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. – Claude T Bissell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world. – Philip Howard	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Globally, investment in hydro-meteorological services could lead to a realization of up to $30 billion per year in increased economic productivity and cut losses from disasters by up to $2 billion.

– Daniel Kull

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have 250 grief mentors from air disasters dating back to 1958 -- private, military and commercial air disasters, this gives people an opportunity to share what they went through with somebody else and also provide hope for them.

– Heidi Snow

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When the world is changing so fast, and we are facing a lot of disasters, unless we have some very ambitious targets, we won't be able to fix things.

– Harjeet Singh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are disasters of technique and some things that are just bad, we made headcheese from Iceland and it was terrible. We call those milkshake meals because even after you eat, you need to go out after for a milkshake.

– Jesse Friedman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I can't afford to rent anywhere else, every time it rains I pray to God for it to stop. But what can I do ? Even a short downpour can leave the capital flooded as piles of rubbish on the streets and debris filled canals block drains, which exacerbates flooding. Natural disasters linked to climate change will only get more frequent and extreme in the future, experts say. Decades of deforestation have left Haiti even more exposed to natural disasters, with less than three percent of its original forest cover still intact, according to the UNDP. This causes soil erosion and reduces the ability of soil to retain water, making Haiti more vulnerable to flooding and landslides. During heavy rainfall, there are few trees to stop water washing down the bare mountains. While 5.5 million tree seedlings have been planted in Haiti by the UNDP since 2010, not enough has been done to stop people cutting down trees in the first place. Selling charcoal, which comes from burning wood, is used for cooking and is a key source of income for many Haitians living in the countryside. .

– Angelique Hilaire

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In Haiti, it's the back-to-back accumulation and combination of disasters that puts pressure on the government and the people.

– Thomas Pitaud

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Natural disasters displace three to 10 times more people than all conflicts and war in the world combined.

– Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When there are important disasters, and people have significant needs, that is the right thing for corporations to do.

– Reynolds American

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes, right through to hull losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes right through to hull-losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This experience reminds us that Indonesia is a place prone to natural disasters, we have to prepare when disaster comes, so we can mitigate it fast and right.

– Zaini Abdullah

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

– Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

– Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

– Douglas MacArthur

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

– Orison Swett Marden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

– Fran Leibowitz, Metropolitan Life

added by anonymous
13 years ago

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

– Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

– Sir Harold George Nicolson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

– Claude T Bissell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

– Philip Howard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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