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“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.”

Ifs Knows Believe Philosophy Moral Teach Cases Taught Ought Survival Majority Rely Willingness God Exists Rely Upon Thoughtlessness

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.”

Doe Ideas Revolution Projects Survival Oil Rely

Author:Hugo Chavez

“Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith.”

Persons Grace Survival Miracle Rely Hope And Faith Activate

Author:Caroline Myss

“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”

Facts Chance Existence Struggle Greater Survival Capable Species Manage Rely Lions Packs Hunts Grasping Rely Upon Lone Wolf Struggle For Existence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.”

“It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.”

Source: Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.”

Individual Democracy Strength Depends Citizens Survival Capacity Army Size Rely American Democracy

Book:Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

Source: Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy