Survival Quotes - Page 39

• When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

  Christopher McDougall

  Mentor, Beats

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.235, Profile Books

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• Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Two, And Love, Different

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• When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Mean, Swings

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Realization

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

  Irving Kristol

  Powerful, Military, Heart

  "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.

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• The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Firsts, Week, Hours

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• Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example . . . A fascinating and illuminating book.

  Virginia McKenna

  Country, Book, Hunting

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• Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

  William E. Simon

  Country, Fighting, Ivory Tower

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• We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

  David Duke

  Stars, Rights, Ku Klux Klan

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• The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

  David Duke

  Country, Israel, Other Cultures

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Struggle, Blessing, America

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Eight, Years, People

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• A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Trying, Doe, Campaigns

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• We have ourselves to save.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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• Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Foundation

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

  Ben Richards

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Hurt, Revenge, Writing

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• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Long, Psychology

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• The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Life And Love, Artist, Thinking

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Anomalies, Gum

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• I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

  Aldous Huxley

  Here I Am, Doubt, Ignorant

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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