#preparedness

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. ↗

— Mark Twain

#preparedness #humor

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. ↗

— Hermann Goering

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

— William Shakespeare

#preparation #preparedness #readiness #attitude

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 #before #beyond #deal #focus

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #preparedness #life

Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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