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• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

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• Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Pain, May, Rewards

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• Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Long

  "Paris Review interview". Interview with George Plimpton, Paris Review Issue 18, Spring, 1958.

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• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Insperational

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Wall, Destiny, Years

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• If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

  Khalil Gibran

  Would Be, Beloved, Ifs

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

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• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  Imelda Marcos

  Fighting, Self, Anything Goes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Science, Molecules

  1976 The Selfish Gene, ch.2.

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• I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  Charles Darwin

  Expression, Sometimes, Used

  On the Origin of Species, 5th ed., ch. 3 (1869) See Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5; Herbert Spencer 6

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• I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

  Cody Lundin

  Braids, Looks, Pieces

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• At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Firsts, Facts

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• When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

  George Lucas

  Important, Able, Next

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Rolling, Vines

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• Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.

  Will Cuppy

  Thinking, Islands, People

  "Living from Can to Mouth". Comic interview with Jo Ranson for Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, No. 5, November 24, 1929.

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• You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

  Cody Lundin

  Pool, Genes, Diarrhea

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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.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Lions

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• Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

  Richard Davidson

  Adversity, Resilience, Levels

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• When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Age, Nuclear Missiles

  "Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations" by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, (p. 203), 1986.

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• This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Evolution, Multiplication

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

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• We need to look for water. Water, water, water, water.

  Cody Lundin

  Water, Needs, Looks

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• We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

  Cody Lundin

  Higher Ground, Needs, Higher

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