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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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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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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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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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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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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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
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All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
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Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.
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Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.
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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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I don't think you can spend yourself rich.
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No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.
