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• Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Two, Leader, Important

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  War, Hero, Mean

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

  Margaret Chan

  Mean, Ebola, Worst Case Scenario

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, People, Prevention

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Optimistic, Long, Optimism

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

  Lynn Dickey

  Skills Training, Degrees, Students

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• The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Lds, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.

  Wu Ta-ch'i

  Leadership, Determination, Pay

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• Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Lds, Hands, Years

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• Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

  Brigham Young

  Survival, Scarcity, Flour

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• I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for the troubles and desolations which are about to be poured out upon the world without measure. For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Lying, Past, Voice

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• Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Survival, Able

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Hands, Years, Fuel

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• Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Holocaust, Style, Rewards

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• Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

  Bill Frist

  America, Focus, Threat

  Congressional Record, Volume 150, pt. 13, September 07, 2004.

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• FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

  Alcee Hastings

  Agency, Hands, Focus

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Form

  "'Drift': Rachel Maddow On Why We Go To War". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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• The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

  Margaret Chan

  Opportunity, Community, Window

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

  Earl Nightingale

  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

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• All things are ready, if our mind be so.

  William Shakespeare

  Attitude, Mind, Ready

  William Shakespeare (1769). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.307

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• I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.

  Wesley Strick

  Earthquakes, Careers, California

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• Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Benefits, Problem

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.62, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have been taught to prepare for the future and to obtain a years supply of necessities. I would guess that the years of plenty have almost universally caused us to set aside this counsel. I believe the time to disregard this counsel is over. With events in the world today, it must be considered with all seriousness.

  L. Tom Perry

  Believe, Years, Long

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• When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Speak

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• Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.

  Amanda Ripley

  Government, Panic, Emergencies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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