Aftermath Quotes

• Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Iraq, Want

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• I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Together, Events

  "Who Exactly Is This God Guy Anyway?" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hangover, Uprising, Levels

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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• Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

  Jose Marti

  Hatred, Slavery, Inevitable

  "Woman Suffrage". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Sticks

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• Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

  A. E. Housman

  Play, Long, Tunes

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

  Mason Cooley

  Joy

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• Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the treatment. Because of the efficiency of our transportation system, the efficiency of our medical technicians, people are surviving.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life

  Anita Hill

  Changed, Changed My Life, Testifying

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• As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

  Bobby Jindal

  Communication, Government, Louisiana

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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• However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

  Gerard Arpey

  Years, Aggravation, Decision

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• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Country, War, People

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• Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

  Charles Rangel

  People, President, May

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• . And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, War, Sorrow

  "Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945".

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Meaningful, Freedom, Real

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Ancient, Landmarks

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• The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Europe, Holocaust

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• There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Impact, Done

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Thinking, Museums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

  Colin Powell

  Fall, Thinking, Baghdad

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• In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

  Hillary Clinton

  September 11, Way, Should

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• The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

  Jerome Lawrence

  War, Writing, Wind

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