Survival Quotes - Page 31

• Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Fiction, Moral

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• I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Thinking, People

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• With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

  David A. Freedman

  Marine, Challenges, Individual

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• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Self, High Standards

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

  Max Brooks

  Keys, Victory, Remember

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.13, Broadway Books

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• I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

  Max Brooks

  Writing, Zombie, Answering Questions

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Mirrors, Cells

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Odds, Statistics

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• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Mary McDonnell

  Motivational, Thinking, Leader

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• We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

  Desmond Morris

  Answers, Enough, Tricks

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

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• I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Views, Enemy

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Firsts, Cancer Survival

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Unimportant, Getting Old

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• Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Opportunity, Looks

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• Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

  Rod Stewart

  Cancer, Facts, Form

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• Cancer is not for sissies.

  Suzanne Somers

  Cancer, Sissy, Cancer Survival

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. March 28, 2001.

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• That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Cancer, Perspective, Better Life

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• Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

  Yael Cohen

  Cancer, Teaching, Years

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• Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

  Mr. T

  Cancer, Proud, Blackness

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• With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.

  Merril Hoge

  Cancer, Being Positive, Doubt

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• Cancer is enough to get my attention.

  Charles Grodin

  Cancer, Attention, Enough

  Charles Grodin (1993). “How I Get Through Life: A Wise and Witty Guide”, Quill

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• So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

  Michael Milken

  Cancer, Relatives And Friends, Family And Friends

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• We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

  Peter Jennings

  Cancer, Survivor, Diagnosis

  Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.

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