“Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.” PeopleIfsDoeHas BeensImportantCertainSocialNaturalAcceptingSurvivalResourcesMediumsAgreementConventionsScarceNatural ResourcesScarce Resources Author:Jacque Fresco
“I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days” ThinkingYearsHas BeensMadeImportantMotherReadingLostAnimalCompassionPlanetsEasierSurvivalWeightDiedIncrediblesCancerDuesMade ItThese DaysDietsVegetarianVeganBetter PlaceVegetarian HealthAnimal CompassionVegan DietMother DiedVegetarian Diet Author:Linda Blair
“The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.” Has BeensAmountDrugFindingsSurvivalPatientRateCancerValuableTreatedReachingTreatmentMassiveDrsMaximumFundingChemotherapy Author:Jared Diamond
“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.” WorldYearsFirstsHas BeensEndsHelpingUseTodayEarthRaceAcceptingFiveEventsMovementArmsActivityWeaponsSurvivalNuclearThirtyFive YearsAwardsNuclear WeaponsInterventionSecrecyExplosionsArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.” IfsWorldWayHumansWellsKindMeanHas BeensCountryWholeGovernmentCareAbleJobsLastsPoliticalSufferingPayConflictSurvivalScientistThirdsSouthDebtTake CareWell BeingThird WorldDo It Yourself Author:Nhat Hanh
“Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.” MenWorldWantHas BeensDreamBeautifulNightNamesSexAnimalWrittenSecurityObjectsSurvivalHungerWaveTerrorTreasureMysteriousMaskShorePrimitiveThirstAnguishCollectingFetishHunger For FoodUnknown Worlds Author:Dominique de Menil
“A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.” MeanChildrenHas BeensCultureNeededSurvivalToolsManageAll TimeIndifferenceSkepticismDiscouragingIncompetenceEmbeddedBirthrightInattention Author:Carl Sagan
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” Has BeensOrderPowerfulParticularSurvivalLive Love Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.” NeedsMindHeartHas BeensFormHateBornTaughtSkillsSurvivalStupidityInnatePenetrateSurvival Skills Author:Frank Iero
“Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.” PeopleHas BeensFantasyRocksSurvivalCrisisWesternVersionsLive LifeRock N RollExistentialRock And RollOblivionPosingExistential Crisis Author:Billy Corgan
“According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.” TryingHas BeensLawResultsClassDyingConflictSurvivalStrongerFinalsAwakeningConquerFavourLaws Of NatureSurvival Of The Fittest Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission.” MeanHas BeensTwoAgeDarkTypeSurvivalResearchAccountsInstitutionsPressesLaysDollarsRateCancerVariousDecadesMedicalBillionsHopefulTrendsPassiveDark AgesTransmissionIncidenceCancer Research Author:Daniel S. Greenberg
“Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.” ThinkingTryingWellsHas BeensSeemsPastScienceWaitingUnderstandingAnimalDoubtConditionsPositionFutureSurvivalPerformancesIntelligentFundamentalsInstanceOrganismsAdmirableProspectsBiologistMutationLiving Conditions Author:George Wald
“The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingYearsHas BeensMightWould BeEarthLife IsNaturalMillionsPlanetsThousandSurvivalStrongerSpeciesEightBillionsHeightFollyCosmosFortyThousand YearsNatural WorldWipePlanet EarthBlinkLife Span Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?” IfsLongHas BeensWarLostLeftForceTermStudyMiddleSurvivalTasksHorseManagementTricksHeyDumbUselessGreekLong TermReportsFormulasCommitteesReally DumbTrojansTrojan HorseTask ForcesMiddle Management Author:Adam C. Engst
“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.” MayHas BeensPastHouseIndividualLeftChanceGenerationsIgnoranceMaterialsSurvivalLettersMercyMereCommittedAccidentsSubstancePrintAnxiousUncertainSurvivedCleaningFuture GenerationCarelessTransportationEphemeralFrailPermanenceRemovalHouse Cleaning Author:Elizabeth Drew
“The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return” IfsHas BeensDeathConditionsDyingReturnEssentialsSurvivalPassingPassingsTransientPassing Through Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan
“Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.” IfsHas BeensSaidRoomsAliveTalentSurvivalUnlikelyContingencyThames Author:Hugh Massingberd
“I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.” IfsHas BeensShowsGovernmentLeftTvsSurvivalDirectArtisticMexicoTv ShowsMovie BusinessInfomercials Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.” NeedsMeanHas BeensWholeHouseTalkingAcceptingMoralChristianityGreaterCenturyCivilizationBenefitsSurvivalEuropeOrganizationBasesDenyCommandArtisticCinemaSignificanceSurgeryAllegiance Author:Evelyn Waugh