Survival Quotes
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
George Reisman
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
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The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
James J. Gibson
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
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Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
Rachel Dolezal
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The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
Al Gore
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There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.
Bernie Siegel
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Lily Tomlin
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Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov
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I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
Philippe Petit
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
Dan Simmons
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You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.
Anand Mahindra
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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch
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When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
Vandana Shiva
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He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.
Alfred Bester
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We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.
George Emil Palade
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I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
Christina Hendricks
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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
Alexi Zentner
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There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
Peter Benchley
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Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
Gene Scott