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Sylvia Mathews Burwell Quotes

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: June 23, 1965

Topics

Work Attention Capture Recovery

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

History Time Museums Abstract Own

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Mission Cornerstone Our Afghan

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Great Prayer Man Me Down Meeting

We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources.

Tristram Stuart

Food Practice Result You Back Turn

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Nature Human Nature Security Human

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

Path Risk Never Always Been

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Death Birth Borders Grave Our

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Want Belief Overcome Cannot Defect

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

Dennis Eckersley

You Important Want More Hard Out

It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.

Douglas Brinkley

Great You Country Important Wild

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

Speak Language Same Whatever Driven

When you stand your ground, and you are attacked by liberals and attacked by the press, that is going to earn you the respect of voters.

Respect Stand You Earn Ground Going

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