Best Survival Wisdom
1564 Survival quotes by 1029 unique authors
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with…
— Isaac Asimov
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Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
— Jacques Derrida
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In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore…
— Poul Anderson
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Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
— N. Scott Momaday
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it…
— William Graham Sumner
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival…
— George Soros
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
— Barry Commoner
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The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability…
— Peter Drucker
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Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.
— Loren Eiseley
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I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and…
— John Wayne
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the…
— Ike Skelton
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I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent…
— Koo Stark
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The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of…
— Germaine Greer
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Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.
— Unknown Author
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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all…
— Dalai Lama
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Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for…
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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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 life force that…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not…
— Richard Heinberg
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and…
— Jack Donovan
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There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish…
— Unknown Author
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