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“Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected...”
“His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man's body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn't bring myself to look at him. He was already dead, b...”
“I make sure to always have some spinach between my teeth so people are disinclined to bother me.Survival strategies for the 21st century.”
“Willpower survives.”
“Here, just like in my own world, popularity was power; survival required the occasional sacrifice of a damaged limbor a damaged cousinand alliances were crucial.”
“Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.”
“Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.”
“If there comes among you a prophet saying Let us return to the darkness, you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light.”
“It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water.”
“Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about....”
“Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of sur...”
“We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.”
“We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find s...”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.”
“Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.”
“My architecture is the architecture of survival.”
“I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know w...”
“For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the...”
“They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.”
