Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.
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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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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
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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.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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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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Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.
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Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.
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There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.
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I don’t really feel like the gender of character is what causes someone to identify with them. It’s the situation they’re in, it’s the way they deal with danger, the way that they deal with fears. And so I feel like it’s a slightly larger question in terms of what makes us identify with someone.
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No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.
