Best Quotes About Survival (Top 61)
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
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It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
Dan Simmons
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
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Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye
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Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Herbert Spencer
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I dream, therefore I exist.
August Strindberg
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara de Angelis
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Life must go on; I forget just why.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Rollo May
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
Karl Lagerfeld
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
Desmond Morris
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In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.
Fritjof Capra
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Survival is triumph enough.
Harry Crews
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner
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Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
Wade Davis
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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Branch Rickey
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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
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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
Lewis Thomas
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
Lily Tomlin
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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
Frank Herbert
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Germaine Greer
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Nathaniel Branden
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To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
Gao Xingjian
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Elias Canetti
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
Rachel Carson
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy Pop
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A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Al Purdy
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He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress
Anwar Sadat
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Moderation is the secret of survival.
Manly Hall
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History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent
Maya Angelou
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
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In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.
Stewart Brand
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Morris K. Udall
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Survival is nothing more than recovery.
Dianne Feinstein
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy