"Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
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"War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation."
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"In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it."
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"I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant."
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"But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty."
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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."
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"Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it."
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"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
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"If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival."
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"Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty."
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"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival."
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"Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space."
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"Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically."
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"Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness."
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"Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on."
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"Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else."
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"They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind."
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"He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest."
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"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
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"Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive."
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