Hundreds Dead in Quake; Tsunami Fears Subside

Posted March 28, 2005, 12:21 p.m.

More than 300 people are reported dead in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. Thousands of residents in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and elsewhere evacuated from coastal areas after the quake hit the region around 11:10 a.m. (EST) and governments issued tsunami warnings. Now, however, the danger of a new tsunami appears to have passed.

Measuring about 8.7 on the Richter scale, today’s quake occurred on the same fault line as the 9.2 earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami on December 26, 2004. That tsunami was among the most deadly and expensive natural disasters in history.

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By . . . false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated . . .

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

Don’t be yourself, be someone a little nicer.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.

The few must be watched, checked, and often resisted. Tyranny has ever shown a predilection to be in close amity with them, or the one man.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverent realism, says that they are all fools.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

Free peoples require alert, aggressive leadership and a socially and politically conscious citizenry. This is not easily maintained, but it is the price of freedom.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.

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