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“Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.”

Way America Century Edges Secure Corporate 20th Century Extinction Dinosaurs Trembling Take Control Corporate America

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”

Source: Future primitive: and other essays

“Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.”

Humans Special Evolve Conservation Threatened Extinction Lineage

Author:George C. Williams

“Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.”

Enough Humanity Social Behavior Tasks Educate Spontaneous Metaphysical Extinction Social Behavior

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.”

Mean Ideas Might Politics Winning Left Justice Vote Court Just One Extinction Prescriptions Wacky

Author:Jay Severin

“America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.”

America Faces Political Choices Liberty Struggle Blessing Survival Fundamentals Liberalism Extinction Servitude Political Struggle Struggle For Survival

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Universe Reading Destruction Intelligent Species Forests Contact Elsewhere Extinction Intelligent Life

Author:Bill Watterson

“More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.”

“To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.”

Men Way Mean Art Achieve Position Sake Casts Great Men Admiration Extinction

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”

World Way Two Problem This World Extinction Two Ways Duplication

Author:Susan Sontag

“One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.”

Book Death Deeper Extinction

Author:Lance Morrow

“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”

Long Self Natural Chance Planets Huge Walking Moon Species Vulnerable Leap Catastrophe Extinction Star Gazing

Author:David Grinspoon

“I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.”

May Causes Accepting Species Range Extinction Explaining

Author:Asa Gray

“There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?”

Faces Issues Movement Gay Aids Extinction

Author:Larry Kramer