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“There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.”

People Thinking Way Want Kind States Form Political Desire Social Emotion Security Survival Safety Psychological All Kinds Explanation Scare Stakes Explaining Intimidation

Author:Judith Butler

“Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.”

Thinking Way Humans Ideas Easy Term Lines Animal Race Survival Resources Back When Easy Way Neanderthals

Author:Jordan Peele

“You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don't go near the edge of the cliff, or don't pick up that snake, etc. There could very well be a Darwinian survival value in that sort of brain rule of thumb. And a by-product of that could be that you believe your parents when they tell you about the juju in the sky, or whatever it might be.”

World Way Needs Believe Wells Might Values Dies Parent Born Brain Sky Dangerous Products Survival Picks Edges Etc Snakes Cliffs Thumbs Dangerous World Juju

Author:Richard Dawkins

“We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.”

Way Wells Humanity Environment Our Lives Survival Concern Concerned Relate Well Being

Author:Dalai Lama

“In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.”

Way Ideas Self Found Cities Talking Novel Survival Doctors Traditional Cures Agony Self Knowledge Urban Psychoanalysis Conformist

Author:Jane Smiley

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”

Ifs Way Truth Easy Survival Adversity Overcoming Adversity Wrong Way

Book:Soul Of The Fire

Source: Soul Of The Fire

“People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.”

People Way Different Survival Vulnerable Different Ways Survival Mode

Author:Malin Akerman

“An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.”

Source: The Cosmic Serpent

“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think”

Thinking Knows Men Way Mind Mean Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Achieve Survival Tools Aim Sustenance

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.”

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher”

Way Giving Feels Doe Problem Happens Running Survival Solutions Ridiculous Circles Traits Spares Paranoia Butchers Dresden Harry Dresden Spare Time Vindicated

Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard”

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.”

Way Want Needs I Can Facts Body Given My Own Sacrifice Air Love You Ego Survival Breathe Naked Pity Fuel Lungs

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Way Giving Trying Doe Enough Giving Up Survival Capable Window Instinct Crash Survival Instinct Enough Is Enough

Author:Tabitha Suzuma

“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.”

Way Made Self Stories Together Left Shapes Survival Stranger Relate Plot Emergencies Absorption Self Absorption

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”

Way Writing Long Stills Light Hair Survival Tasks Unity Fingers Metaphor Heavy Slips Thick Diverse Soup Attempting Simile Handful Fables Strands Coarse Unruly Diction Braids

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.”

Ifs Way Children Different Use Hands Would Be Wanted Girl Fighting Easy Accepting Mines Weapons Survival Illusion Weak Denial Liars Props My Girl Sheila

Author:Agatha Christie

“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.”

People Ifs Knows Way Happens Able Used Fighting Strong Quality Gone Wind Survival Brave Theme Survivor Lacking Catastrophe Upheaval Gumption

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“Art is a way of survival.”

Way Art Survival Art Is

Author:Yoko Ono

“I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.”

People Way Trying Art Process Vision Imagine Survival Areas Concern Method Dance Practicals Primaries Dancer Collectives Grounded Prospects

Author:Anna Halprin

“As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”

Way Life Has Beens Term Poverty Survival Mere Profound Modern Conveniences

Author:Raoul Vaneigem

“Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.”

Way I Can Running Survival Scared

Author:John H. Johnson

“Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.”

“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.”

“It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.”

Way Looks Form Girl Violence Survival Sake Enjoyment

Author:Rosario Dawson

“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.”

Way Mean Alive Comfort Survival Instinct Survival Instinct

Book:More Than Human

Source: More Than Human

“Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.”

“The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.”

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.”

Way Inspirational Earth Faces Given Force Easier Eternal Survival This Life Inevitable Our Time Eternal Life Inevitable Change

Book:Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”

Knows Way Ends Life Is Creativity Know How Struggle Conflict Survival Triumph Cooperation Workplace Long Life Aggressors Struggle For Survival

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”

“All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.”

“There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.”

Way Survival One Way

Book:The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors

Source: The Field and Forest Handy Book: New Ideas for Out of Doors

“For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two.”

Men Way May Two Order Three Lost Hours Week Danger Cold Survival Importance Endure Hunger Extremes Guarding

Book:Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America

Source: Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America

“Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.”

Way Survival Program Spectacular Pursued Preparedness Disaster Preparedness

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Bigs Behinds Survival Boxes Curves Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Joe Teti

“This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.”

Way Persons Situation Survival Shining Stressful Stressful Situations

Author:Joe Teti

“I like the way you hustle man.”

Men Way Survival Hustle

Author:Joe Teti

“Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.”

Way Has Beens War Life Is Enemy Danger Survival Borders Troops Globes Missiles Advancing No War

Author:John F. Kennedy

“And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.”

Ifs Way Nice Birth Survival Reflection Things To Do Colleagues Nice Things

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Ifs Way Mean Reality Groups Share Particular Planets Survival Capacity Dignity Agree Currents Agreement Computing

Author:Francisco Varela

“The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.”

“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

“Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.”

Way Wells Use Air Survival Cancer Defined Cells Friendly Chemicals Conspiracy Organs Signals Niche Facilitate Cascade Dissemination

Author:Paul Davies

“I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.”

“That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.”

People Ifs Way Hate Community Survival Hate You Small Communities People You Hate

Author:Carolyn Chute

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