Survives Quotes
227 quotes by 208 authors
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such…
— Edward Hoagland
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
— Ayn Rand
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
— James Russell Lowell
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
— Albert Einstein
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
— Albert Einstein
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
— Victor Hugo
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
— Rene Dubos
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
— Oscar Wilde
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A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
— Edward Abbey
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still…
— Andrea Dworkin
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
— Paul Gauguin
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And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that…
— Harry J. Holzer
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