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Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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.
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.
Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a creation.
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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.
There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.
Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?
It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.
Trapped' is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his survival based on his primal instincts.
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.
The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.
The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.
The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.