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“If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.”

People Kind Film Cutting Survival Edges Cutting Edge

Author:Wes Craven

“You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don't go near the edge of the cliff, or don't pick up that snake, etc. There could very well be a Darwinian survival value in that sort of brain rule of thumb. And a by-product of that could be that you believe your parents when they tell you about the juju in the sky, or whatever it might be.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”

People Seems Government Poverty Survival Edges Hardest Justify

Book:Among the Hidden

Source: Among the Hidden

“At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.”

Risk Survival Chaos Edges Outcomes Unexpected Severe

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“Learn to live on the edge.”

Author:Richard Branson

“In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.”

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Author:Duane Elgin

“I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.”

Joy Survival Edges Surviving

Book:A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz: on his eightieth birthday

Source: A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz: on his eightieth birthday