"Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace."
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"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
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"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
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"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest."
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"The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God."
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"When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred."
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"It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science."
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"The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection."
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"I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it."
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"The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible."
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"It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects."
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"Man's mind is his basic tool of survival."
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"If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile."
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"In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate."
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"The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial."
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"The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function."
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"Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage."
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"For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them."
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"The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change."
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"As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight."
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