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Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can get excited about.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.
In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.
I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.
The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.
The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.