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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."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."

"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."

"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."

"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
Explore more quotes by Sun Tzu


"Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat."


"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."


"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."


"If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue."


"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."


"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force."


"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
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