“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ”
- Jane Wagner- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ”
- Richard Branson- Copy
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“ Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. ”
- Dora Russell- Copy
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“ Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing. ”
- joss whedon- Copy
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“ After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ Be happy — if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? ”
- Cormac McCarthy- Copy
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“ This is a fight for livelihood, for survival. He knows it, and Mayweather better know it, too. ”
- Don King- Copy
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“ Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope. ”
- George Iles- Copy
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“ Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead . ”
- John H. Johnson- Copy
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“ The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles — whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled — is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating… ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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