Survival Quotes - Page 40

• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Population, Fit, Elimination

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• I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

  P. D. James

  Sex, Taken, Emotional

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.158, Vintage

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• I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Survivor

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

  Ted Allen

  Believe, Talking, Joy

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

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• Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

  Quentin Crisp

  Soul, Forgiving, Way

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• At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly

  Primo Levi

  Mean, Men, Doctrine

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Thoughtful, Keys, Civilization

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Thinking, Yoke

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.31, Grove Press

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Instinct, Preservation

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.42, Random House

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Skills, Culture

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• To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

  Studs Terkel

  Triumph, Enough, Great Men

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.262, The New Press

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• Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Democracy, Development, Stage

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• ... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

  Samuel Florman

  Technology, Environment, Clear

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• The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Death, Dying, Essentials

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• Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spiritual, War, Luxury

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• Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Expression, Purpose

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• The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

  William E. Burrows

  Moon, Space, Compelling Reason

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• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moon, Years, Two

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

  Hugh Massingberd

  Alive, Rooms, Talent

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• There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  People, Worst, Happened

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Struggle, Envy

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  People, Groups, Essentials

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