Survival Quotes - Page 28

• This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer.

  Joe Teti

  Fire, Lotion, Brighter

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• Hiking up a hill is an ass kicker, going downhill is a little easier.

  Joe Teti

  Hiking, Kickers, Littles

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• Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Enemy, Troops

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Government, Self

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• Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Steps, Life Is, Backwards

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• The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Competition, Doe, Succeed

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, December 12, 1890.

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• I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Becoming Better, Thinker

  "It's An Interconnected World". Shambhala Sun, April 2002.

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Tools, Damage

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Impact, Profound

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• It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Struggle, Results

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Self, Groups, Cooperation

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Culture, Engagement, Problem

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• They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

  Russel Honore

  Stay Positive, Alive, Stores

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• Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Soul, World, Doe

  Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth S. Schussler (1994). “Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology”, p.121, A&C Black

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• If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.

  Francisco Varela

  Mean, Reality, Agreement

  "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.

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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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• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

  E. O. Wilson

  Beautiful, Men, Past

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• As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Inspirational, Emotional, Waiting

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• White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Blessed, Men, Race

  "White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, archive.org. 1967.

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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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• I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

  Terry Fox

  Cancer, Believe, Miracle

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

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• Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

  Scott McCloud

  Art, Two, Instinct

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