"Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity."
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"That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have."
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"What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them."
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"War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied."
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"Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival."
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"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."
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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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"suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive."
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"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."
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"We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us."
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"There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative."
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"If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?"
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"Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest."
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"One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere."
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"Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best."
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"Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor."
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"Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do."
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"Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death."
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"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying."
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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."
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