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“Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”

Source: Dogeaters: A Novel

“Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.”

People Way Mean Reason Simple Survival Favors Oppression Oppressed Oppressors Treachery Treacherous Curry

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“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

“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.”

Men Way Happens Realizing Simple Creative Limits Survival Function Strive Sufficient Engaged Equilibrium Endeavour Creative Work

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.”

“Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.”

People Thinking Way Should Wells Important Different Whole Culture Simple Animal Levels Planets Diversity Survival Species Saved Ecology Ecological Different Cultures

Author:Richard Gere

“A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.”

Way Different Simple Survival Function Property Notion Different Ways Organisms

Author:Noam Chomsky

“UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.”

Needs Children Helping Dream Care Mother Water Realizing Simple Health Future Survival Clean Health Care Clean Water World Hunger Basic Needs Unicef Hunger For Food

Author:Jane Curtin

“The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.”

Knows Facts Born Simple Consciousness Creatures Survival Nervous Remarkable Traits Knowing God Nervous System

Book:How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries

Source: How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries

“When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.”

“My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.”

Hard Simple Stupid Survival Smart Motto My Motto Keep It Simple Work Smart

Author:Joe Teti

“In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.”

People World Simple Survival Simplicity Edges Billions Relevance Simple Living Affluent

Author:Duane Elgin

“Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.”

Song Simple Plans Cry One Day Survival Arrivals

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

Easy Simple Virtue Survival Strategy Evolve Code Fragile Elegant Equilibrium Fragility Artifacts

Author:Brian Foote

“On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.”

Understanding Simple Levels Survival Forgiveness Intimate Crucial Personal Relationships

Author:Edward Albert

“Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.”

Simple Pleasure Survival

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.”

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