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- Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. — Sholom Aleichem
- Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. — John Ciardi
- Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've… — Jarvis Cocker
- It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are… — Diablo Cody
- College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. — Judd Apatow
- The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Unknown Author
- The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based. — Paul MacCready
- Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. — Daniel Dennett
- The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
- For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman
- At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy
- No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith