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“However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.”

Way Past Energy Letting Go Despair Waste Survival Odds False Hope

Author:James Alan Gardner

“I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.”

Thinking Giving Believe Kind Children Character Young I Believe Enjoy Particular Reader Terrible Survival Agency Odds Young Children Protagonists

Author:Robert Paul Weston

“Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”

Men Doe Matter Lasts Failing Survival No Matter What Odds Pins

Book:Endurance

Source: Endurance

“The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.”

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Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Source: The Gathering Storm

“The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.”

Should Humans Wells May Ends Three Race Century Survival Human Race Odds Mathematician

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.”

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Book:98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

Source: 98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

“I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.”

Thinking Said Chance Willing Survival Missions Statistics Odds

Author:Alan Shepard

“This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.”

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Author:Daniel Schultz