Tan Zuoren Quotes
This is a tragedy among human history, the result of large numbers of human errors.
Tan Zuoren, Chinese Writer, Editor, & Social Activist, 譚作人:四川大地震人禍更勝於天災
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Federal Authorities arrived with press officers and a bevy of reporters and issued statements to the press while there were thousands of people in dire straits with many of them dying with no food, medical care or relocation from flooding water.
Milosevic was explaining the events that led to civil war in Yugoslavia
Burns phrase “mice an’ men” is later used as the title of John Steinbeck’s novel – Of Mice and Men, 1939.
Guevara and Cuban revolutionaries had gone to the Congo to “assist” with their revolution, but cultural differences between the two groups of revolutionaries nullified any assistance that the Cubans could give.
Traffic fatalities had been growing ever since the production of the automobile. See Stalin {616657} for another statement about large numbers of deaths. Today, for example, the death of 3 American soldiers in a day produces page one news. An airplane crash that kills 10 people will dominate the news, while on that same day 117 Americans will have been killed in automobile traffic deaths “diffused in time and space”.
He was the Station Chief During the Blackhawk Down Catastrophe.
Tan Zuoren, from Chengdu, Sichuan province, People's Republic of China, is an environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (文化人).