"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

Survival, May, Order, Succeed

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"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

Stephen King, American Author

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"In this world only the paranoid survive."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."

John Green, American Author

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