Survival Quotes
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Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.
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I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
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When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.
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The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.
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We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.
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Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
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When change is constant, learning is an essential survival skill.
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Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.
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There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.
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A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.
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The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.
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Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
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Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
