#survival

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#delude #important #may #survival #tool

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#failure #her #i #life #lived

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#accept #any #anybody #decision #defend

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK. ↗

— Koo Stark

#am #america #breast cancer #cancer #cent

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#human species #including #indifferent #nature #species

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#condition #nuclear #nuclear age #peace #survival

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#altruism #because #been #confer #continuing

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cool #economics #follow #generations #genes

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.' ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #climate #climate change #countries #development