#extinction

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct. ↗

— Bauvard

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. ↗

— Iain Banks

#experience

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. ↗

— George C. Williams

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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

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They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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