8 QUOTES WITH «RUBBLE»
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rubble.
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.
Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.
I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUBBLE»
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Angel in the
Rubble: The Miraculous Rescue of 9/11's Last ...
"The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation"--
Genelle Guzman-McMillan, 2011
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Rubble Films: German Cinema In Shadow Of 3Rd Reich
Pathbreaking in its research, Rubble Films sheds new light on a significant moment of German cultural rebirth, and adds a new dimension to the study of the history of film.
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Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition
Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London’s Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and ...
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Signs Amid the
Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
Now that he is gone, there is a call for his unpublished writings to be made available. To that end "Signs amid the Rubble" gathers some of Newbigin's finest statements on issues of continuing relevance.
Lesslie Newbigin, Geoffrey Wainwright, 2003
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Rubble Nation: Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise
Chris's text tells the story of post-quake Haiti through interviews with Haitian citizens and aid managers.
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Lessons amid the
Rubble: An Introduction to Post-Disaster ...
Sophisticated and engagingly written, this volume combines history, engineering, ethics, and philosophy to provoke a deep discussion about the symbolic meaning of buildings and other structures and the nature of engineering.
Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, 2010
In Rising from the Rubble, the reader is infused into the fateful day of January 12th 2010 and its aftermath.The story focuses on the earthquake's devastation and the story of one man's struggles and his recovery.
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Revival in the
Rubble: How God Rebuilds His Broken People
Using the principles found in the book of Nehemiah, John Kitchen shows how personal revival is what God desires for all His people and that it is possible.
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David Hammons: Rousing the
Rubble
celebrates two decades of work by artist David Hammons, who has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously ducking the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to "do things in the street."
David Hammons, Institute for Contemporary Art (Long Island City, New York, N.Y.), University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art, 1991
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RUBBLE»
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9 died in hospital after being rescued from rubble in Zhejiang
9 people have died in hospital after being rescued from the rubble of a factory building in east China's Zhejiang Province which collapsed on Saturday afternoon ... «CCTV, Jul 15»
NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal By Their …
This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home—to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped ... «Gizmodo, May 15»
Police: 101-year-old man rescued one week after Nepal quake
(CNN) Police rescued a 101-year-old man from under the rubble of his home on Saturday, one week after an earthquake hit his country, Nepal Police ... «CNN, May 15»
Gas tanks found in rubble of exploded Scarborough home
Four small gas tanks have been located in the rubble of a Scarborough home that exploded on Monday. While crews continue to investigate the cause of the ... «CityNews, Apr 15»
Fire Breaks Out At Russian Shopping Center; Dozens May Be …
MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) - Some 25 people may still be under the rubble of a shopping center that caught fire in the Russian city of Kazan, Interfax news ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
6th body pulled from rubble of Maryland mansion
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The last of six fire victims was found Monday, a week after the $6 million waterfront mansion where they were sleeping erupted in flames, ... «USA TODAY, Jan 15»
Two children pulled from rubble after deadly landslide destroys …
Among the injured, two children were pulled alive from the rubble by rescue services just hours after the incident. The town's mayor, Nermin Madra, said there ... «euronews, Jan 15»
Project begins to remove war rubble in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The first large-scale project to remove tons of rubble in the Gaza Strip left over from this summer's fighting between the Islamic ... «Yahoo News, Dec 14»
Cause of building collapse that injured 2 women under investigation
Two women and a dog were rescued from the rubble of a building that "pancaked" after an apparent explosion in the Washington Park neighborhood. «Chicago Tribune, Nov 14»
More bodies pulled from rubble of Rozelle explosion
The mother of 27-year-old Chris Noble, whose body was pulled from the rubble left after an explosion in Rozelle, fought back tears as she described how ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 14»
