Peter Maurer While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful. – Peter Maurer Changing Quotes Cities Quotes Consequences Quotes Impactful Quotes Moving Quotes Nature Quotes Warfare Quotes Wars Quotes Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts. Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.
Rickson Gracie My great grandfather came from Scotland to Brazil, George Gracie, from Dumfries. – Rickson Gracie
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Norman FinkelsteinPolitics The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong. – Norman Finkelstein
John Coltrane I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls. – John Coltrane
CarJohn Searle My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. – John Searle
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