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“Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.”

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Author:Billy Cannon

“Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.”

Order Produce Evolution Survival Impulse Arrangements Orderly Prerequisites Inbreds

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.”

Way Values Bits Simple Produce Creatures Survival Complicated Avoiding Constraints Flocks Guarded Admonition

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“We all want survival, safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, health, happiness, and love. Yet we seem utterly unable to produce it for any but the tiniest minority of us - even after trying for thousands of years.”

Want Trying Years Seems Opportunity Security Produce Survival And Love Safety Prosperity Minorities Happiness And Love

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.”

Men World Mean Made Purpose Evil Asks Loses Moral Virtue Produce Becoming Survival Productions Destroying Immoral Piety Looting Fodder

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.”

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Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”

Humans Certain History Stage Produce Materials Survival Institutions Justification Deficit Repression

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.”

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Author:William Graham Sumner

“Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.”

Way Matter Results Produce Survival Convinced Conclusion Interaction Occasional

Book:My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

Source: My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space