Survival Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Important, Comfort

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• Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.

  Mors Kochanski

  Mean, Fire, Skills

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• Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Shelter, May

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• In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Light, Weather

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• Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.

  Mors Kochanski

  Exercise, Hands, People

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• A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.

  Mors Kochanski

  Knives, Needs, Wells

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• Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.

  Mors Kochanski

  Important, Dresses, Tools

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• The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

  Mors Kochanski

  Knows

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• The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.

  Mors Kochanski

  Sleep, Night, Water

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• There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.

  Daniel Carter Beard

  Way, One Way

  Daniel Carter Beard, David R. Godine (2000). “The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors”, p.209, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

  Cody Lundin

  Odds, Skills, Emergencies

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.

  Stewart Edward White

  Ignorance, Men, Drawing

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• I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.

  Lamar Hunt

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

  Bob Gibson

  Matter, Pitcher

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• I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

  Mark Edward

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

  "Artists Of The Recession". markedwardadams.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Community, Understanding

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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.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Age, Cockroaches, Dinosaurs

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