Survival Quotes - Page 32

• We are all precancerous.

  George Carlin

  Cancer, Cancer Survival

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

  Dana Reeve

  Cancer, Thinking, Tunnels

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• Cancer is everybody's cause.

  Laura Ziskin

  Cancer, Causes, Cancer Survival

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• I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?

  Abram Hoffer

  Cancer, Hands, Feel Good

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Drs

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• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Life And Death, Humanity, Pandemics

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• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

  Kofi Annan

  Mother, Children, Health

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• My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Awards, Race, Years

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• Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

  Alva Myrdal

  Nuclear, Strive, Threat

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• Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Unique, Animal

  "The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader".

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• Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.

  Mary Davis

  Years, Five Senses, Fifty

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• We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

  Karl Marlantes

  Heart, Ego, Suffering

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've always believed in survival.

  Hugh Leonard

  Always Believe

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• Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Air, Water, Joy

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.68, Penguin

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• Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

  Don Lemon

  Race, Breathing, Class

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• Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

  Norman O. Brown

  Fashion, Humanity, Today

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.305, Wesleyan University Press

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• To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

  Michael Doucet

  Song, Identity, Doe

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• To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

  Gregory Orr

  Emotional, Self, Firsts

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• A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

  Ralph Caplan

  Civilization, Design, Needs

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• There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

  Barbara Demick

  Optimistic, Instinct, Natural

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

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• The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

  Ed Seykota

  Keys, Long, Technique

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• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

  Todd Solondz

  Reading, Writing, Creative

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

  Rick Yancey

  Kids, Games, Wings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Teamwork, Cells, Division Of Labor

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• When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

  Daniel Suarez

  Civilization, Strategy, Humans

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.39, Penguin

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