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• Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

  Joe Teti

  Water, Protocol

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• All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.

  Cody Lundin

  Moving, Thinking, Think Positive

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• Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Curves, Balls

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• In any survival situation, you need to weigh the risk and the reward.

  Joe Teti

  Risk, Needs, Rewards

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• The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Eight, Hug, Growth

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• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  Linda Vester

  Stories, Sometimes, Easy

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Real, Home

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, Streets, Staying

  Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.254, MIT Press

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• Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Age, Starving

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• To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Mirrors, Perspective

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

  Dorothy Allison

  Book, Dying, Captured

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• He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

  Anwar Sadat

  Inspirational, Change, Stress

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Modern Journalism, Principles

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.664, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

  John Galt

  Men, Mind, Tools

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• My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Powerful, Giving

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press

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• Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stronger, Done, Persons

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Monument, Ifs

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• Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

  Robert Ardrey

  Principal, Aggressiveness

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• Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Firsts, Laws Of Life

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.37, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

  Desi Arnaz

  Father, Struggle, Years

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Will To Survive, Marine Corps

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• First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Competition, Quality

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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