Survival Quotes

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

Steven Pinker

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I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way.

Nick Kroll

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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

Margaret Atwood

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If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it's also survival for the drivers because it's such a long race and it's usually hot at Charlotte. It's hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.

Robby Gordon

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Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

Jacque Fresco

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They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Russel Honore

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I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Helen Mirren

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When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth.

Michael Leunig

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Your community is your survival.

Carolyn Chute

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Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

Julia Glass

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Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

Daniel Levitin

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Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Dianne Feinstein

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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

Ben Carson

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The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Deepak Chopra

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Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Vanna Bonta

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I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Corrine Brown

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In times of disaster, basic connectivity is a form of aid that connects people to the resources critical for survival and enables humanitarian organizations to quickly deliver life-saving information.

Tae Yoo

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Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

Brad Feld

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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle

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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

J. B. Smoove

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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

Gary Zukav

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