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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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• 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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• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Emotional

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• What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

  Peter Watts

  Sunset, Obsessing, Values

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.556, Head of Zeus

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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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• 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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• The art of survival is a story that never ends.

  Christian Bale

  Art, Hustle, Stories

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• I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

  Gene Cernan

  Stars, Real, Home

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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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• 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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• 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 need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Games, People, Track

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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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• Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, Blow, Air

  "Kristen Stewart defended by Jodie Foster" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. August 15, 2012.

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  Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  Redd Foxx

  America, People, Black

  Redd Foxx, Norma Miller (1977). “The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor”, Ward Ritchie Press

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• Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Long, Earth

  "Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Crucial To Human Survival". The Canadian Press Interview, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 18, 2011.

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• Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

  Zoe Bell

  Appreciate, Feelings, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What chance of survival does a culture have
  when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

  William S. Lind

  Culture, Politics, Doe

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• We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Suicidal, Names, Rivers

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• Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

  Catherine Fisher

  Pay

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.74, Penguin

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• Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

  Anna Lee

  Bird, Together, Strange

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• The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

  George W. Bush

  Land, Liberty, Depends

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Usual, Rabbits

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.155, Oneworld Publications

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• We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Vision, Principles

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• Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

  J. William Fulbright

  God, Destiny, Hands

  Congressional Record, vol. 100, p. 1106., February 2, 1954.

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