Survival Quotes - Page 25

• No not me go find someone else to bring down

  Maya Angelou

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• This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Other Cultures, Civilization, Leaving

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• All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

  Joseph Rusling Meeker

  Party, Animal, Play

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• But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Strong, Secret, Trying

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Civilization, Matter, Redeemed

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

  William James

  Life, Despair, Degradation

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• That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Future, Thinking, Issues

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• So here's to the girls on the go
  Everybody tries.
  Look into their eyes,
  And you'll see what they know:
  Everybody dies.
  A toast to that invincible bunch,
  The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
  Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch
  Everybody rise!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Eye, Lunch

  "The Ladies Who Lunch". Song by David C. Rakowski, Stephen Sondheim, 1988.

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• Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

  Robert Browning

  Song, Play

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.281

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• Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

  Rebecca West

  Virginia, This Generation, Generations

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• More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

  Ordway Tead

  Common Sense, Historical, Analysis

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.

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• Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

  Norman Cousins

  Time, Art, School

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• How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Reputation, Valiant

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Drama, Garden

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• Deeds survive the doers.

  Horace Mann

  Deeds, Doers

  Horace Mann, Felix Pécant (1891). “Life and Works of Horace Mann”

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• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

  George Washington Carver

  Color, Demand, Products

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• Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Learning, Men

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• The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  Edmund Spenser

  Genius, Stones, Poet

  "The Shepheardes Calender". Book by Edmund Spenser, 1715.

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Business, Style, Honor

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• Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Community

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• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

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• To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Personality, Soul, Brain

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Failure, Animal

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• If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Animal, Self

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