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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston Churchill

Simple, Thinking, Self

Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

William James

Taken, Mean, Ideas

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

Brandon Mull

Fun, Book, Grandma

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If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Suzanne Collins

Team, Coffee, Hair

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

Janet Fitch

Tired, Beer, Men

Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".

Kim Harrison

Night, Watches, Noses

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...you look at me like an emergency

Adrienne Rich

Looks, Look At Me

Adrienne Rich (2013). “Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli

Janet Evanovich

Believe, Cop, Condom

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Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

Ellen Raskin

Turtles, Games, Grace

Ellen Raskin (1997). “The Westing Game”, Puffin

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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Sports, Way, Lace

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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men, Imagination, Making Love

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Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

Anne Lamott

Book, Communication, Home

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Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.

W. Cleon Skousen

Responsibility, Government, Community

W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Rebecca Solnit

War, Commitment, Doors

"Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

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The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

Italo Calvino

Bridges, Invisible, Frail

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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

Alan Moore

Past, Train Of Thought, Finding Yourself

"Batman: The Killing Joke". Book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Lewis Hyde

Voice, Use, Cages

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I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Fighting, Everyday, Important

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.431, Penguin

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Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

Susan Mallery

Book, Grandmother, Doctors

Susan Mallery (2012). “Sizzling”, p.71, Harlequin

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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hero, Fighting, Winning

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.78, Penguin

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Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

Katherine Applegate

Ships, Rams, Blades

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You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It’s for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there’s always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Moon, Pie, Grandpa

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No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

Ian Mcewan

Process, Democratic, Democratic Process

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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

Mary Roach

Airplane, Secret, Survival

Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

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As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan. “What?” "An emergency precaution, Your Majesty. In case the lady faints.” Curran just stared at him. Raphael strode toward the Pit, turned, flexed a bit, and winked at me. "Give me that,” I told Curran. “I need to fan myself.” "No, you don’t.

Ilona Andrews

Giving, Fans, Needs

Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.201, Penguin

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