Survival Quotes - Page 33

• Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Support, Joy, Life Is

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• In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

  Arthur Kroker

  Memories, Army, Cutting

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• Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

  Alan Grant

  Idiotic, Reverse, Darwinism

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• The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

  Mors Kochanski

  Moving, Opportunity, Knives

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• Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.

  Brian Foote

  Simple, Fragility, Virtue

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• Successful investment is a battle for financial survival.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Successful, Battle, Financial

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• Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Survivor, Today, Celebration

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.244, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.

  George H. Smith

  Ideas, Political, Feelings

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• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Encounters, May

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• In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

  Cary Fowler

  Mean, Games, Diversity

  "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species" by Cary Fowler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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• For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Overcoming, Circumstances, Difficulty

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Tasks, Needs

  "Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1992.

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• We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Environmental, Tipping, Crisis

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• The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Soul, Requirements

  "We Can Do Better Than Attack Syria" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

  David Suzuki

  Sms, World, Way

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• Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.

  Elinor Gadon

  Adventure, Land, Diversity

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• I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Believe, Caring, Self

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• Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

  Conrad Black

  Terrorist, Nations, Great Nations

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• Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Country, Art, Strong

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

  Carol Zaleski

  Echoes, Play, England

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• Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

  Amanda Ripley

  Impossible, Lost, Arcs

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• Everything is interconnected. My
  interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Enemy, Destruction

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• If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  William Eckhardt

  Hurt, Loss, Driving

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