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“The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.”

Art Form Values Culture Language Clear Survival Intellectual Capacity Imaginative Employing

Book:The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

Source: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.”

Men Needs Seems Survival Capacity Traits Unlimited

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

People Knows Humans War Strong Know How Survival Capacity Tragedy Renewal Amazing Things Human Capacity Hidden Strength

Author:Isabel Allende

“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.”

Humans Happens Life Is Easy Animal Too Much Development Eating Survival Capacity Incredibles Complicated Human Life Comparison Gifted Replication Nothing Is Easy

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.”

Humans Problem Desire Human Beings Animal Levels Survival Capacity Satisfaction Deeper Senses Unhappy Arise Assumption Materialism Quests Gratification Sensory Immediate Gratification

Author:Dalai Lama

“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

Lying Attention Survival Capacity Delight Pay Attention Sanity

Author:Julia Cameron

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

Humans Care Suffering Human Beings Survival Capacity Awe Fullness Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.”

Survival Capacity Infinite Suspicion

Author:John le Carre

“We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Safe Survival Capacity Tests Vain

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.”

Life Should Humans Has Beens Bits Ability Theory Essentials Survival Capacity Cooperation Suspicious

Author:Daniel Goleman

“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”

Ifs Trying Humans Body Spirit Found Strong Secret Bears Circumstances Survival Capacity Empty Conviction Enormous Stomach Tested Human Body Surviving Unbearable Deprivation Adjusting

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.”

Humans Forget Struggle Violence Survival Capacity Tools Damage Crucial Aggression Defects Monstrous Human Capacity

Author:Katherine Dunn

“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Ifs Way Mean Reality Groups Share Particular Planets Survival Capacity Dignity Agree Currents Agreement Computing

Author:Francisco Varela

“The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.”

Individual Democracy Strength Depends Citizens Survival Capacity Army Size Rely American Democracy

Book:Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

Source: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”

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