Survival Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Inspirational, People, Together

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  Oliver Lodge

  Matter, Way, Results

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

  Jacque Fresco

  Agreement, People, Important

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

  Patch Adams

  Thinking, Compassion, Government

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• Survival is optional.  No one has to change.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Improvement, Optional

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• Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

  Samuel Fuller

  Ambition, Men, Frustration

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

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• I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

  Michael Lewis

  Morning, Wall, Regret

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Air, People, Perfect

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

  Carolyn Chute

  Hate, People, Community

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• The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Dark, Light, Progress

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• At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Suicide, Country, Climate

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• Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Ocean, Book, Islands

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  People, Priorities, Firsts

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• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Fighting, Government

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• The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.

  Henry Fairlie

  Play, Shopping, Luxury

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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