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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. ↗

— Junipero Serra

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