“Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.” LooksHas BeensIdeasEyePastBeliefMemoriesHealingExistenceAcceptingAcceptanceMoonSurvivalEvidenceRefuseAcceptedHumankindNew IdeasPsychiatristEvaluateTherapistsPast LifeSatellitesAstronomersJupiter Author:Brian Weiss
“If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.” PeopleAcceptingViolenceSurvivalSpringOkayInstinct Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.” LittlesLeftAcceptingFateSurvivalVictimCancerBreast CancerLittle TimeCancer SurvivorBreast Cancer SurvivorPeople With CancerCancer Victim Author:Ingrid Bergman
“As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.” PeopleFeelsStatesDecisionResponsibilityAcceptingRolesSecuritySurvivalJewIsraelHistoric Author:Ariel Sharon
“I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.” IfsWayChildrenDifferentUseHandsWould BeWantedGirlFightingEasyAcceptingMinesWeaponsSurvivalIllusionWeakDenialLiarsPropsMy GirlSheila Author:Agatha Christie
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” WarNationsPartyAcceptingAcceptanceSurvivalCivil WarAmerican Civil WarInauguralInaugural Address Author:Abraham Lincoln
“While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.” MaySometimesHardHandsLawScienceIndividualRaceAcceptingEnvironmentProgressConditionsEssentialsSurvivalCompetitionEnvironmentalWelcomeInequalityDepartmentConcentrationBeneficialAccommodateSurvival Of The FittestConcentration Of WealthFuture Progress Author:Andrew Carnegie
“But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude survival kit; and yet -this is the paradox of the human condition - one that fits him to all environments. Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it.” MenHumansReasonImaginationAnimalAcceptingEnvironmentConditionsEmotionalEvolutionFitSurvivalContraryParadoxSwimHuman ConditionLockedMultitudesCrudeSubtletyToughnessBiological Evolution Author:Jacob Bronowski
“We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest” ShouldHumansAcceptingVisionPrinciplesFutureSurvivalBasesSavagesHuman SocietySustainable DevelopmentSurvival Of The Fittest Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.” LifeLawStrongAbilityAcceptingConditionsAcceptanceInspirational LifeSurvivalInevitableConformAdaptationLaws Of NatureQualificationsSurvival Of The FittestAgeless Author:Dave Smalley
“Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.” PeopleIfsDoeHas BeensImportantCertainSocialNaturalAcceptingSurvivalResourcesMediumsAgreementConventionsScarceNatural ResourcesScarce Resources Author:Jacque Fresco
“My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.” WorldYearsFirstsHas BeensEndsHelpingUseTodayEarthRaceAcceptingFiveEventsMovementArmsActivityWeaponsSurvivalNuclearThirtyFive YearsAwardsNuclear WeaponsInterventionSecrecyExplosionsArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.” IfsWorldWantNeedsHumansDoneOrderAcceptingSurvivalTasksProductive Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.” NeedsMeanHas BeensWholeHouseTalkingAcceptingMoralChristianityGreaterCenturyCivilizationBenefitsSurvivalEuropeOrganizationBasesDenyCommandArtisticCinemaSignificanceSurgeryAllegiance Author:Evelyn Waugh