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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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 -
No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
Doris Day
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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 -
It is what we fear that happens to us.
Oscar Wilde -
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
Charles James -
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
Pir Vilayat Khan
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
Thomas Hobbes -
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates -
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh -
While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Well, there is a tide also in the affair of getting up in the morning, and its flood-point is the precise instant when you recover consciousness. At that moment every one, I believe, has moral courage to leap violently out of bed; but let that moment pass, and you sink supinely back, if not to sleep, at least into a desperate condition of unconquerable lethargy.
R. M. Ballantyne -
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