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War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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.
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
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.
Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.
But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.” “So we’re screwed?
The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)
I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.
Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
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.
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.
Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the books you are attracted to.