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“People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.”

“Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.”

Knows Humans Earth Values Results Ignorance Activity Survival Commitment Resources Destruction Greed Humanitarian Threatened Living Things Human Activity Lack Of Respect Destruction Of Nature

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.”

People Real Sometimes Moving Belief Causes Results Survival Believer Working It Real Things Atrocities Intangible Old Soul Indefinable

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.”

“Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.”

Ifs Philosophy Science Next Born Results Birth Survival Consequence Accounts Philosophical Philosophy Of Science

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

“Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind”

Results Evolution Survival Economics Blind

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.”

War Nations Results Struggle Survival Unfortunate Threatened

Author:Hideki Tojo

“We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.”

Knows Should Believe Results Support Victory Survival Outcomes Stakes Troops Our Troops Support The Troops Support Our Troops

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.”

Mean Results Conflict Survival Population Endless Immigration Organized Integrating Replacements

Author:Marine Le Pen

“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

“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.”

Community Results Numbers Circumstances Messages Survival Mass Letters Chains Contribution Programming Online Warning Mail Viruses Large Numbers Petitions Mailing

Author:Roger Ebert

“According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.”

Trying Has Beens Law Results Class Dying Conflict Survival Stronger Finals Awakening Conquer Favour Laws Of Nature Survival Of The Fittest

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.”

Men Age Past Law Results Alive Survival Pity Interfere Desirable Strain Ruthless Governing Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Nikola Tesla

“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”