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• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  Ted Nugent

  Crush, War, Evil

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

  Grace Paley

  Good Life, Peculiar, Interest In Life

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.63, Macmillan

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• There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Competition, Adjectives

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• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  Iggy Pop

  Memories, Hot, Favors

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Europe, Needs

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Stills, Survived

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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.

  John C. Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

  "Interview: John C. Reilly on his animated anti-hero "Wreck-It Ralph". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Spring, Cosmos

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• The fight for survival is the fight

  Rocky Graziano

  Fighting, Boxing

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

  Susan Patron

  Guarantees, World, Protect You

  Susan Patron (2007). “The Higher Power of Lucky”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

  Horace Kephart

  Home, Journey, Men

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• It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.

  Rosario Dawson

  Girl, Looks, Sake

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• Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

  Colin Farrell

  Names, Incredibles, Desperation

  "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross", October 11, 2008.

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• The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

  Horace Kephart

  Travel, Independent, Men

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• To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Integrity, Practice, Might

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• I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

  Tilda Swinton

  Soldier, Chance, Feels

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

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• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Cutting, Afterlife, Personality

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, United States, World

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• This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

  Robert W. Service

  Being Strong, Law, Yukon

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Confidence, Business, Self

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Change, Business, Believe

  Chronicle interview, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.

  Anna Halprin

  Dance, Art, People

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