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Survival Quotes
"Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing."
"One great film The 33, based on a book The 33 or Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar. A story about miners, which are locked in a cave and survive 69 days with not a lot of food. The book can't show a lot of images, but if you want to feel everything the film is the best choice, a lot of different emotions, one moment you see anger, other rage and many others... but survive, still remaining brothers up to today!"
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
"The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself."
"He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!"
"A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking."
"I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers."
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
"When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep."
"Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food! It was terrifying, man."
"Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif I were ever on the verge of death--plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community."
"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth."
"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."
"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."
"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."
"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."
"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying."
"He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife-pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want."
"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."
"Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh."
"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate."
"When in doubt, choose to live."
"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."
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