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“Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.”

Needs Believe Important Courses Planets Survival Window Importance Hungry Crucial Mice Catching Hawks

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.”

Humans Computer Survival Ultimate Deeper Subtle Collectives Sanity Crucial Interaction Interfaces

Author:Alan Cooper

“If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.”

Ifs May Ends Body Nations President Deals Successful Materials Duty Survival Congress Mysterious Crucial Passages Convoluted

Author:Jon Stewart

“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”

Giving Two Book Humanity Tree Elements Survival Plant Crucial Oxygen Plant A Tree Tree Planting

Book:The Big Picture: An American Commentary

Source: The Big Picture: An American Commentary

“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

“Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.”

Emotion Special Evolution Survival Crucial Prominence

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.”

Wealth Race Survival Destruction Prison Crucial Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Daniel Quinn

“The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.”

“On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.”

Understanding Simple Levels Survival Forgiveness Intimate Crucial Personal Relationships

Author:Edward Albert