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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

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.”

Ifs Light Wise Alive Love You Survival And Love Sticks Fingers Staying Staying Alive Plugs

Author:Robert Altman

“The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.”

Stories Nice Alive Findings Survival Metaphor Inner Strength

Author:Katie Aselton

“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”

“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Mean Said Ends Sometimes Body Spirit Term Walks Alive Risk He Man Broken Victory Survival Prison Sentences Destroyed Gates Jail Survived Cradle Small Victories

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.”

“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. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think”

Thinking Knows Men Way Mind Mean Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Achieve Survival Tools Aim Sustenance

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.”

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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

Ifs Alive Survival Strategy Careful Beast Bait Kaylee

Book:Never to Sleep

Source: Never to Sleep

“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.”

“Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.”

“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.”

Way Mean Alive Comfort Survival Instinct Survival Instinct

Book:More Than Human

Source: More Than Human

“If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.”

People Ifs World Persons Art Use Reality Running Artist Love Is Alive Imagine Creating Survival Running Away Imagine That Another World

Author:Robin Gibb

“Stay in the game and stay alive.”

Games Alive Survival Staying Alive

Author:Joe Teti

“They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.”

Alive Survival Stores Stay Positive Staying Alive Right Words Looting

Author:Russel Honore

“War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.”

People Trying War Hard Given Poverty Alive Effects Survival Given Up Staying Alive

Author:Aminatta Forna

“This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.”

People Want Art Next Emotion Forever Alive Emotional Survival Live Forever Emotional Things

Author:Ray Bradbury

“In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.”

Men Age Past Law Results Alive Survival Pity Interfere Desirable Strain Ruthless Governing Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Rooms Alive Talent Survival Unlikely Contingency Thames

Author:Hugh Massingberd

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