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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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"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."
"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."
"There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad."
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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."
"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."
"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."
"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
"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."
"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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