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“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.”

Ifs Thinking Life Play Music Listening Survival Desert Islands Composer Being Alone Pianist

Author:Glenn Gould

“Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.”

Humans Play Today Nations Groups Tomorrow Survival Preparation Survival Of The Fittest

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”

Thinking World Play Pain Political Spirit Names Process Understanding Audience Subjects Serious Normal Survival Connections Boxes Terrorism Theatre Rational Promoting Anti Terrorism

Author:John Lahr

“The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.”

Knows Mind Humans Play Desire Universe Brain Roles Evolution Survival Curiosity Human Mind Our Relationship Tapestry Tapestry Of Life

Author:Michio Kaku

“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”

“I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.”

Play Able Lines Survival Grateful Bottom Bottom Line

Author:Terry Bozzio

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

Ends Play Young Left Survival Fairs Instinct Innocence Fair Play

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.”

Play Views Discipline Survival Negative Dna Hunts

Book:Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

Play Fun Struggle Survival Baseball Balls Tea Contests Supremacy Survival Of The Fittest Inspirational Baseball Playing Baseball Motivational Baseball

Book:My life in baseball: the true record

Source: My life in baseball: the true record

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.”

“Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!”

Play Song Survival

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

“I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here.”

Knows Play Guy Hell Survival Musician Tunes This Guy

Author:Joe Teti

“A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.”

Play Survival England Brilliant Treatment Echoes Purgatory Shakespeare's Plays

Author:Carol Zaleski

“Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.”

Play Roles Honest Survival Species Tricks

Author:Paulo Coelho