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“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”

Believe May Earth Mankind Particular Depends Survival Lasting Preservation Inheritance Researchers Future Of Mankind

Author:Kenichi Fukui

“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“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

“Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.”

Has Beens Problem Spiritual Practice Struggle Issues Teaching Particular Survival Including Related No Problem Monk Involvement Joining Nun Tibetan Spiritual Practice Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”

Ifs Religion Faith Religious Particular Survival Karma

Author:Dalai Lama

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

Literature Term Particular Comfort Survival Notion Catastrophe

Author:Iris Murdoch

“Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.”

Men Kind Doe Stills Environment Particular Products Survival Species Environmental Contrary Guarantees Fragile Environmentalism Equilibrium Earth Day

Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.”

Humans Has Beens Choices Term Community Human Beings Moral Particular Survival Consequence Species Valuable Traits Blindness Selective

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.”

“An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.”

Men Mean Action Faces Choices Evil Animal Particular Survival Species Senses Alternatives Code Distinction Sustaining Evil Man

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Ifs Way Mean Reality Groups Share Particular Planets Survival Capacity Dignity Agree Currents Agreement Computing

Author:Francisco Varela

“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.”

Past Lying Social Sex Religious Views Moral Groups Economic Particular Circumstances Judgment Survival Function Judgement Customs Discarded Moral Judgment Bodily Functions Moral Judgement

Author:Peter Singer

“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 Beens Order Powerful Particular Survival Live Love

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde