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“The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.”

People Risk Conditions Survival Majority Calm Resourceful

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.”

“Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.”

“Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.”

World Done Choices Pleasure Struggle Identity Source Conflict Survival Majority Motherhood Integration Ambivalence

Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.”

Opinion Survival Tests Majority Merit Majority Opinion Literary Merit

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.”

Ifs Knows Believe Philosophy Moral Teach Cases Taught Ought Survival Majority Rely Willingness God Exists Rely Upon Thoughtlessness

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.”

Years Matter States Challenges Months Return Survival Majority Prison Mere Immense

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.”

Stills Important Government Nations Survival Important Things Majority Strive Private Sector Thai

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.”

People Want Persons Different Dies Asks Secret Achievement Survival Majority Rounds Longevity Desirable Belly Elderly Wrinkles Envied Scraping District 12

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.”

Needs Mind Reason Science Strong Grows Loses Perfect Evolution Survival Weak Majority Species Acquire Again And Again

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.”

“The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.”

Men Sometimes Struggle He Man Survival Majority Minorities One Man Struggle For Freedom

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.”

Thinking Messages Survival Conscious Negative Majority Validation

Author:John Edward