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Mans survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)

We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right. (Quote by - Steve Blake)

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. (Quote by - Raoul Vaneigem)

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I dont think this is heavy. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth. (Quote by - Joanna T. Steichen)

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. (Quote by - Anita Roddick)

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. (Quote by - M. H. Abrams)

There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival. (Quote by - John Cory)

And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival. (Quote by - David Douglas Duncan)

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. (Quote by - Timothy Garton Ash)

As I was examining my past I realized I started out as a baby. Unfortunatly so did my brother. My mother did not put all of her eggs in a basket so to speak. After I was born my mother had a new son who taught me the meaning of survival of the fittest. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. (Quote by - Doug Larson)

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. (Quote by - John McCarthy)

This generation has given up on growth. Theyre just hoping for survival. (Quote by - Penelope Spheeris)

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. Thats what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, its the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. (Quote by - Aslan Maskhadov)

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

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