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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

Life Values Awareness Depends Survival Ultimate Philosophical Mere Contemplation Spiritual Awareness Value Of Life Conscious Awareness

Author:Aristotle

“As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.”

Humans Long Able Race Football Survival Concern Mere Soccer Analysis Human Race

Book:The soccer tribe

Source: The soccer tribe

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.”

Kind Doe Said Term Existence Survival Mathematics Mere Guarantees Contradiction Logical Vitality

Book:Mathematics and Logic

Source: Mathematics and Logic

“Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.”

Giving Names Survival Mere Symbols Memorial Monument Helplessness Stand For Something

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“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

“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”

Way Life Has Beens Term Poverty Survival Mere Profound Modern Conveniences

Author:Raoul Vaneigem

“At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.”

Levels Design Survival Mere Humanism Dots

Author:Erik Adigard

“Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.”

Wells Real Seems Grows Community Situation Struggle Survival Mere Desert Sentiments Sentimental Confrontation Goodwill

Author:Larry Harvey

“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.”

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.”

Imagination Struggle Possibility Survival Mere Recognition Radical Impatient Struggle For Survival

Author:Adrienne Rich

“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.”

“Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.”

Certain Force Democracy Conditions Stage Depends Development Survival Consequence Mere Productive Development Of Society

Author:Wei Jingsheng