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Survival Quotes
"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."
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"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
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"Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group."
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"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
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"In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool."
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"Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator's hand."
"I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics."
"Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction."
"The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!"
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived."
"As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it."
"Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge."
"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."
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
"I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers."
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
"When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep."
"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community."
"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth."
"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."
"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."
"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."
"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying."
"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."
"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
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