Joan Baez Quotes
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.
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Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.
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Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
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I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.
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There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
