Herbert Spencer Quotes
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.Herbert Spencer
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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.
Gary Bauer -
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos -
The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars von Trier -
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia -
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
E. O. Wilson -
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Lili Taylor -
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns -
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III -
Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
John Branch
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All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
Joan Baez -
No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
Doris Day -
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
Harry Callahan -
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
A. J. Muste -
My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
Rachel Hartman
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My thesis is that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.
Bill Buxton -
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett -
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt -
God is the explanation of all things.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Herbert Spencer