#survival

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. ↗

— John McCarthy

#experiences #institution #often #survival

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#culture #engaged #had #problems #survival

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#forgotten #hot #i #just #know

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. ↗

— Al Purdy

#either #poems #survival

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

Success is survival. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#success is #survival

Education is a precondition to survival in America today. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#education #precondition #survival #today

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ↗

— Doug Larson

#every #except #grow #how #learning