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"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
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"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
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"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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"W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K."
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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."
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"There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster."
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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
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"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
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"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."
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"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."
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"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."
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"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."
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"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."
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"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
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