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- Nov 07, 2020
Survival Quotes
Most Famous Survival Quotes of All Time!
Survival takes on different meanings throughout these quotes, an underdog rising against the odds, and a firsthand account of local people enduring a violent, unforgettable scene. Read more on Life and resilience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.
- Gossip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
- Down The Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
- Conspiracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means. Yet the existence of billionaires is irreconcilable with this emancipatory project.
- Ecosystems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
Other quotes widen survival to a global scale, calling for cherishing the earth's renewal and warning about the danger nuclear weapons pose to humanity's future. See Best and Able quotes for more.