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“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Survival Tools Sustenance

Author:John Galt

“Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.”

Ifs Body Running Moving Ability Space Existence Path Air Feet Movement Solitude Survival Proof Obedience Temporary Calmness Comes And Goes Euphoria

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.”

Body Causes Women Survival Enlightenment Subtle Mechanism Downfall Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”

“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Body Would Be Together Consciousness Atheism Survival Argument Weak Bases Destroyed Immortality Persist Interconnection

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”

Way Mind Long Body Names Existence Survival Machines Ultimate Genes Preservation Long Way Mind And Body Rationale Selfish Gene

Book:The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.”

Two Body Mother Months Survival Daughter Female Nine Subversive Mother And Daughter Nine Months Subliminal

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning