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Survival Quotes
"She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating.Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand."
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"He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." "Thank you," I said coldly."
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"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."
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"What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive."
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"There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it."
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"After dinner, at five o'clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he could find room, arranged it with the bedclothes from his petate, and set the mosquito netting over that. Those with hammocks hung them in the salon, and those who had nothing slept on the tablecloths that were not changed more than twice during the trip."
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"The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me."
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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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"Even the laziest person will fight for oxygen when drowning."
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"People who live in the luxury of a steady paycheck and food in their bellies get too caught up in right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, heroes and villains, even truth and lies. As if we're all either one or the other. As if we all have a choice. As if I have a choice. But I don't believe in choices. I believe in survival."
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"You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite."
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"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
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"Survivors can't always choose their methods."
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"Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning."
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"Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge."
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"Endgame, Sam muttered, not really expecting Caine to hear."Yep, Caine said. "That's right. Endgame. The FAYZ barrier is coming down; at least that's mybet. But there's also a ninety percent chance you and me both end up dead. Ten percent chance weboth actually get out of here alive. In which case we end up sharing a cell somewhere. He laughed."Kind of unfair, really, what with me being evil and all, and you just so darned virtuous and heroic."
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"You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball."
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"If I couldn't find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct led me forward. In this moment of despair I was refusing to stop fighting. I asked the mountains for some guidance, the strength to get myself out of here, and pulled wild power from within myself I'd never known I'd had.I was no longer following a trail.I was learning to follow myself."
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"I saw now that bad men existed who would take advantage of any weakness and insecurity they found when violating a victim. I saw it was not my fault; I did not choose to be raped or kidnapped. But now I was learning how to protect myself from the predators, to trust my No and my instinct and my strength. I was learning I was not to blame, I couldn't prevent men from trying to hurt me, but I could definitely fight back. And sometimes fighting back worked."
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"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."
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"Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut."
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"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
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"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
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"The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals."
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"I'm in awe of you, Rowan Palotay, he said softly. 'And plan to make love to you for the rest of the night, but right now, I want you to be a good cowgirl and ride me. His finger hooked around the string of her panties, and he tugged them down and off. 'The boots stay on."
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"Racism is a physical experience."
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"Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean."
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"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
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"No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work."
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"I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed."
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"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."
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"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
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"But I did feel the vertigo of death's invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy " and obscenely cowardly " after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on."
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