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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The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force.
Abdullah Abdullah -
She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.
Jack Warner -
Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
Lamont Jody Hawkins -
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.
William Arthur Ward -
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.
Stephen Dunn -
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