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“If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.”

Ifs World Want Needs Humans Done Order Accepting Survival Tasks Productive

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.”

People Ifs Believe Ideas Wanted Universe Found Grows Walks One Thing Theory Evolution Survival Lonely Decided Fishes Legs Beach Uncomfortable Frightened Supporter Lungs Fundamentalist Daft

Author:Peter Hitchens

“Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.”

Ifs Humans Art Book Country States Moving Energy Strong Ability Cases Rights Style Survival Simplicity Human Rights Luxury Witness Prose Immigrants Idle Vocation Urgent Luminous Jeopardy

Author:Madison Smartt Bell

“If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”

Ifs Hurt Loss Survival Financial Driving

Author:William Eckhardt

“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”

Ifs Seems Mother Courses Realizing Chance Teacher Survival Rate Mortality Second Chance Ruthless Mother Nature No Second Chances

Book:The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel

Source: The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel

“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“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.”

“If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.”

Ifs Writing Book Care Survival Imbeciles

Author:Umberto Eco

“Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.”

“Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.”

Ifs Survival Blind

Book:Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel

Source: Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel

“Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Left Survival Nuclear Survivor Holocaust Cockroaches

Author:Cher

“All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.”

Ifs Mother Strong Dark Growing Up Growing Survival Survived Closets Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.”

Ifs Way Trying Use Wanted Answers Forget Healing Happened Survival Saved Forget It

Author:Mariane Pearl

“In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.”

“Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.”

Ifs Spiritual Humanity Morality Survival Karma Handle Liberation Bondage

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.”

Ifs Important Fighting Next Winning Battle Survival

Author:Donald Trump

“If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.”

Ifs Moving Politics Chance Space Planets Survival Farewell

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”

Ifs Needs Littles Values Nations President Security Danger Limits Survival Tradition Graves Officials Anxious Censorship Secret Society Concealment

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.”

People Ifs Littles Ends Wisdom Might Values Realizing Modern Possibility Survival Contradiction Sanity Sane Absurdity Doubtful

Author:Thomas Merton

“If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.”

Ifs Process Understanding Nature Natural Animal Attitude Survival Species Limitation Voting Biased Hater Bad Attitude

Author:L. David Mech

“Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.”

Ifs War Cold Survival Leaving Realization Uncertainty Cold War Obscure Assured

Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“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.”

“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?”

“I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?”

Ifs Should Humans Doe Sex Human Beings Taken Emotional Survival Species Extraordinary Devices Straightforward Turmoil Being Straightforward Emotional Turmoil

Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.”

Ifs Thinking Should Ideas Would Be Evolution Survival Salt Worth It Something Better Survival Of The Fittest Wittiest

Author:Jane Wagner

“If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Children Steps Break Birth Morality Survival Ethics Necks Feminine Realistic Unwanted Yoke

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“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”

Ifs Has Beens Death Conditions Dying Return Essentials Survival Passing Passings Transient Passing Through

Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan

“Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.”

“If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.”

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Rooms Alive Talent Survival Unlikely Contingency Thames

Author:Hugh Massingberd

“In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.”

Ifs World Ability Struggle Survival Safety Coping Pitfalls

Author:Willard Gaylin

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Shows Government Left Tvs Survival Direct Artistic Mexico Tv Shows Movie Business Infomercials

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.”

Ifs Humans Kind Doe Might Culture Social Space Levels Growing Progress Risk Cost Survival Suicide Insight Acceptable Space Travel Social Progress Asteroids

Author:Gregory Benford

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