"The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually."
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"It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible."
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"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life."
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"The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success."
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"A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk."
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"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."
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"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."
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"Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it."
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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up."
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"The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth."
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"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."
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"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all."
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"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
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"All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone."
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"No not me go find someone else to bring down"
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"The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability."
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"I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person."
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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."
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"It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it."
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