No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
Erik Larson
There is a difference in what is focused upon, and the degree of disturbance that the person presents with
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My job is to.. Sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and erase the barriers and increase the strength so they can accomplish their goals.
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When I read that,.. I realized that maybe this guy was not quite the hero history has made him out to be.
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The broader message is that technological hubris will always get you in trouble with nature.
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He embodied the hubris that so marked the last turn of the century when America believed it could do whatever it wanted, wherever it wanted, and could even override nature.
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Now the city's most treasured landmarks are those that existed before the storm. The city has gone from one that looked forward to one that sees its happiest times in the past.
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If you can imagine walking out your back door -- and where you ordinarily see somebody's yard, kids playing and houses and the streets and all that stuff -- what you would most likely have seen is a pile in which your neighbors where at that very moment being incinerated
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Old No. 2.
Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.
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Maybe I'm imagining it, but I sense a deep seam of sorrow in Galveston for the way things have turned out. It was such a glittering little city in 1900, with the promise of becoming another San Francisco or New Orleans
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There began to appear before my romantic eyes..a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
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The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.
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Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world.. Felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
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