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“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”

Form Individual Powerful Acting Race Existence Struggle Survival Selection Recurring Struggle For Existence

Author:Charles Darwin

“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.”

Giving Pain Powerful Survival Clarity

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.”

Knows Men Order Powerful Power Groups Mystery Survival Regard Vices Discrimination Inequality Know Me Vice Versa

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?”

People Thinking Way Humans Powerful Rich Survival Mass Greed Bars

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.”

Thinking Knows Mother Language Powerful Baby Survival Tools Traits Possessed Mimicking Ducklings

Author:Trevor Noah

“Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.”

Term Powerful Survival Extraordinary Invention Very Powerful

Author:Gangaji

“I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write poems. I believe this because I am quite sure poetry can do something no other form or writing, or human activity, can, at least not in such a powerful and distilled and undeniable way. And that we need this type of thinking for our survival as individuals and as a species.”

Thinking Writing Believe Different Individual I Believe Community Powerful Poet Survival Obligation

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.”

Trying Helping Powerful Eating Survival Work Out Very Powerful

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.”

Needs Force Powerful Taste Survival Instinct Manners Consideration Get Back Decency Civility Politeness Survival Instinct Will To Live

Author:Danny Boyle

“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”

Mind Important Feelings Spirit Imagination Memories Powerful Survival My Imagination

Author:John Marsden

“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.”

World Needs Helping Action Together Artist Voice Community Powerful Compassion Roles Creativity Issues Share Planets Survival Teamwork Our Planet

Author:Natasha Mayers

“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.”

“Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”

People Mean Today Law Powerful Possibility Survival Mass Capitalism Consequence Competition Powerless Excluded Survival Of The Fittest Marginalized Economic Justice Economy Today

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.”

Needs Humans Water Powerful Compassion Mankind Blessing Survival Dimensions Basic Needs Power Of Nature

Author:Vikas Khanna

“Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.”

Eye Powerful Survival Standing Threat

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate”

Powerful Essentials Survival Adequate Subordinates

Book:Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

“It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.”

Animal Powerful Evolution Survival Most Powerful Martial Arts Mma Efficient Efficiency Surviving

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“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

“I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.”

Thinking World Love Age Humanity Games Loses Powerful Watches Sacrifice Messages Survival Hunger Entertainment Misfortunes Warning Really Powerful

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”

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