We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I see people crossing the road without looking, because the lights say that you can. They're acting as if there's never been… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organizations aren't loyal; they can't be. They have to be nimble, they have to change. That means everybody in every organization will… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
…chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases,… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, they adopted an upright stance.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those… — John Varley Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are dark and difficult days ahead, and you won't be playing for an increase in company dividens -… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“The reflexive sense of wonder, of crying over a medal of the Madonna del Granduca and not knowing why, will be mostly… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“You and I know how to stay alive in an urban community. As humans, we are genetically encoded to adapt to many… — Else Poulsen Copy Share Image
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
