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“In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.”
“A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.”
“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...”
“Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.”
“Imagination is an instrument of survival.”
“Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of...”
“Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.”
“Success is survival.”
“It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.”
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
“The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.”
“You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.”
“Humor - I see it as a survival skill.”
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
“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....”
“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”
“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”
“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable g...”
“I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping...”
“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me prou...”
