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We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.


Rebecca Solnit

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LIA HILLS In some cases, it's a matter of menus already being prepared.
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MICHAEL KORDA Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.
BILL DORAN I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
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PAUL SCHNEIDER Weather patterns can change. We need to be prepared for that.
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RAYMOND KELLY You have to adjust accordingly, ... Slow down and always have your vehicle prepared for any weather.
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MONICA KIRKHAM Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.
BOB CASTLE If we are forced, we are prepared to defend our position.
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STEVEN REDHEAD Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
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MARTIN DANSKY This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
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REBECCA WEST One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
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REBECCA WEST He is every other inch a gentleman.
REBECCA WEST Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better...
REBECCA WEST All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sle...
REBECCA WEST Being classy is my teenage rebellion.
REBECCA MCKINSEY Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of...
REBECCA PIDGEON A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
REBECCA MACKINNON My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for g...
REBECCA LOBO Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe ...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18...
REBECCA HALL I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's...
REBECCA TRAISTER It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...
REBECCA PIDGEON As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mecha...
REBECCA MACKINNON Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou...
REBECCA TRAISTER