“I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.” WellsRealityGamesEnjoyForeverInvolvedSurvivalBaseballDeterminedFondness Author:Sadaharu Oh
“Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.” GoalForeverSurvivalIncludingProsperitySubordinatesGreat PowerVigilant Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?” WantMindSoulBodySpiritDesireDiesBeliefForeverSurvivalEternityWingsMortalityContractsCravingDeludedClausesGreatest FearYou Can WinHmmOur Greatest Fear Author:Dan Millman
“Putin's survival depends on land grabs of foreign territories. He needs new annexations. The annexation of Crimea has gained him much applause at home. But that will not last forever. The Western sanctions are beginning to take hold and the people are suffering. In order to maintain his popularity, Putin has to commit further international crimes. Otherwise he will be dead politically.” PeopleHomeSufferingForeverCrimeSurvivalWesternCommitPopularity Author:Arseniy Yatsenyuk
“Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.” HandsPurposeCoursesIndividualForeverSurvivalMachinesCastsPartnersCardsDestroyedMarchGenesStableFleetingOblivionCrossingsShufflingChromosomesCrossing OverGeological Time Book:The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!” IfsMenWritingMindBookUseSeemsMovingScienceForeverMankindWindSurvivalSittingHorseDearAwakeGuaranteesProtestCandleAgain And AgainMarsLimbsSmall ThingsSurvivingWriting A BookStar GazingTelescopesImmensityGifts Of LifeBeating A Dead Horse Author:Ray Bradbury
“Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?” LifeHumansSoulPurposeCasesForeverFailingEternalSurvivalEternityAccomplishImmortalityAssumptionGuaranteesSurvivingHuman SoulEternal LifeAfter DeathRiddlePresent Life Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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.” PeopleWantArtNextEmotionForeverAliveEmotionalSurvivalLive ForeverEmotional Things Author:Ray Bradbury
“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.” I CanCan DoForeverSurvivalAskingPrivilegeObligationSurvived Author:Simon Wiesenthal