“Honestly, from the experience of SARS (in 2002-2003), if the (2019-nCoV outbreak) situation is so serious, no one will go to a casino in Macau.”

— Ho Iat Seng

Ho Iat Seng (2020) cited in " Macau casinos could be closed if risk of Wuhan virus rises: Ho Iat Seng https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2020/01/23/macau-casinos-could-be-closed-if-risk-of-wuhan-virus-rises-ho-iat-seng/" on Inside Asian Gaming, 23 January 2020.

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Chief Executive of Macau 1957

Yazdan Yazdanpanah (1965) French-Iranian infectiologist

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Ho Iat Seng (1957) Chief Executive of Macau

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“The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

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“He viewed humour as a relaxing introduction to many situations. "It is, of course, completely inappropriate in some… but in the end, you know, if you were serious in this job you'd go mad."”

David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand

Source: Gliding on the Lino - The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.

“Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

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“The US did think of replacing Saddam with some army officers. At the time (2002-03) I bristled with anger at the idea. I still would not accept it. And yet I cannot deny that it just might have led to a situation that was better than the one we face at the present.”

Kanan Makiya (1949) American orientalist

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“We have developed an effective treatment plan (to patients contracting COVID-19) based on our experience of dealing with SARS, by employing various life support methods to (achieve) a higher rate of recovery.”

Zhong Nanshan (1936) Chinese pulmonologist

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“Camus [five_questions]said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:
The first one is: Who started it?
The second is: Are we going to make it?
The third is: Where are we going to put it?
The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?
And the fifth: Is it serious?”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I’m biased.”

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“Honestly, from the experience of SARS (in 2002-2003), if the (2019-nCoV outbreak) situation is so serious, no one will go to a casino in Macau.”

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