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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”

Needs Fun Freedom Five Survival Driven Belonging Genetic Mutation

Author:William Glasser

“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

“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

Has Beens Made Enough Earth Dies Left Memories Five Land Return Survival Forgotten Impulse Bridges

Book:A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

Source: A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

“Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.”

Science Space Animal Vision Five Stage Products Evolution Survival Hearing Flight Organs Cents Efficiency Smooth Reproduction Believable Trajectory

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.”

Men Made Ideas Self Film Born Five Despair Ambition Survival Accounts Frustration Cents Ninety Bank Accounts Fattening

Author:Samuel Fuller

“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.”

“Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.”

Knows Years Lasts Universe Five Survival Senses Fifty Minimum Five Senses Instrumentation

Author:Mary Davis