Survival Quotes - Page 36

• What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

  Eric Schlosser

  Ignorance, Years, Lasts

  "Fast Food Nation". Book by Eric Schlosser, January 17, 2001.

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• Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.

  Debbie Ford

  Compassion, Race, Order

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• Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Believe, Matter, Sustainability

  "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

  Harriet McBryde Johnson

  Loss, Remember, Natural

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• We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

  E. O. Wilson

  Monsters, Fascination, Stories

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• I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

  David Byrne

  Musician

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• Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

  Walter Mosley

  Blind, Ifs

  Walter Mosley (2014). “Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel”, p.139, Vintage

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• You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

  Michael Korda

  Support, Needs, Loved Ones

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• Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Want, Losing, Living My Life

  "Rahm Emanuel's Commencement speech at GWU". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Cancer, Numbers, Scare

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• I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

  Tina Turner

  Victim

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• Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

  Cher

  Thinking, Holocaust, Cockroaches

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• After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Enemy, Survivor, Eighty

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• All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Strong, Growing Up

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• A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

  Dolly Parton

  Tree, Surface, Stargazing

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• Survival, I know, is to begin again.

  Judy Collins

  Begin Again, Knows

  Judy Collins (1989). “Trust Your Heart”, Fawcett

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• I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

  Mariane Pearl

  Healing, Trying, Use

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• Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Helping Others, Helping, Survived

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love Life, Character, Love Is

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

  Annie Dillard

  Survivor, Emergencies, Kind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Every woman who writes is a survivor.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Survivor

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• Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

  Vinton Cerf

  Pressure, Crisis

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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• Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

  Ogden Nash

  Mean, World, Difficult

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• She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

  Anne Cameron

  Live Well, Wells, Survived

  Anne Cameron (2002). “Daughters of Copper Woman”, Harbour Publishing Company

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