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“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Important Hard Fighting Fun Evolution Survival Destruction Being True Primitive Hunts Prey Rivals Survival Of The Fittest

Book:The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”

Self Hard Able Opportunity Force Missing Prove Survival Illusion Driving Painter Extras Ambitious Driving Force Sceptic Publicists

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.”

Believe Hard Would Be Earth Law Life Is Technology Progress Civilization Survival Competition Ridiculous Being True Elsewhere Fierce Harsh Advanced Civilization

Book:The Forge of God

Source: The Forge of God

“It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.”

Knows Hard Seems Planets Survival Appreciate Importance Far Away Rainforest

Author:Lily Cole