"Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival."
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"Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species."
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"...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."
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"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
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"At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
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"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia."
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"We are all wired into a survival trip, now."
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"Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self."
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"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."
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"Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence."
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"Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation."
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"The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival."
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"Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait."
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"We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right."
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"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up."
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"A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival."
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"I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool."
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"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival."
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"The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest."
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"Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival."
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