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• ... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

  Diane Arbus

  Lying, Book, Long

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• It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Past, Knowing, Important

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Escribir era su única vía de escape, su único medio de supervivencia. Era un respiro en un mundo cruel, a pesar de un entorno aparentemente confortable.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Mean, World

  Danielle Steel (2006). "El largo camino a casa", editorial Dell

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• Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Team, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

  Eudora Welty

  Grief, Flower, Writing

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• Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet. I’ve heard the moon is kind of nice this time of year.” – Sundown “Focus your ADD, Jess.” – Ren “I gotcha, brother. What you’re forecasting is six more plagues coming out of the northwest at maximum velocity with a mild chance of survival. Followed by the world getting swallowed whole in a vat of evil.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Nice, Moon

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• ‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

  David Attenborough

  Successful, Mammals, Population

  "The Life of Mammals". Documentary, 2002.

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• Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

  Rachel Vincent

  Bait, Alive, Beast

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Never to Sleep”, p.18, Harlequin

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Mean, Years, Numbers

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• I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl Interrupted, Talent

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• It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

  John Green

  Hate, Kids, Bullshit

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.278, Penguin

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• But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

  Stanley Milgram

  Culture, Action, Reason

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, United States, World

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• Ésta es la ley del Yukón: que sólo prosperen los fuertes, que perezcan los débiles y que sólo sobrevivan los aptos.

  Robert W. Servicio

  Being Strong, Law, Yukon

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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• Sobrevivir a un fracaso te da más confianza en ti mismo. Los fracasos son grandes herramientas de aprendizaje, pero hay que reducirlos al mínimo.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Confianza, Negocio, Autoestima

  "La entrevista de Fast Company: Jeff Immelt". Entrevista con John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. 1 th Of July de 2005.

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• 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 knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Change, Business, Believe

  Chronicle interview, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.

  Anna Halprin

  Dance, Art, People

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• Si la edad de la Tierra fuera un año natural y el día de hoy fuera un suspiro antes de la medianoche de Nochevieja, habríamos aparecido hace apenas quince minutos, y toda la historia registrada habría parpadeado en los últimos sesenta segundos. Por suerte para nosotros, nuestros compañeros de planeta -el fantástico entramado de plantas, animales y microbios- llevan perfeccionando pacientemente sus productos desde marzo, unos increíbles 3.800 millones de años desde la primera bacteria. ...Tras 3.800 millones de años de investigación y desarrollo, los fracasos son fósiles, y lo que nos rodea es el secreto de la supervivencia.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Naturaleza, Animal

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• We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Men, Land, Diversity

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• Problems are the price you pay for progress.

  Branch Rickey

  Adversity, Progress, Pay

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• My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

  Eknath Easwaran

  Stars, Flower, Grandmother

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• La diversidad humana hace de la tolerancia algo más que una virtud: la convierte en un requisito para la supervivencia.

  René Dubos

  Diferencias, diversidad, tolerancia

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Fun, Struggle

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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