#survival

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#better #cooperation #engage #evolutionary #process

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. ↗

— Carlos P. Romulo

#condition #man #price #survival #very

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#been #beginning #beings #human #human beings

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. ↗

— George Ball

#contribute #goes #israel #longer #prosperity

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#country #everyone #guarantee #national #survival

If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!" This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live. ↗

— Diet Eman

#identity #survival #diet

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#happiness #life #optimism #struggle #survival

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple of hit songs then. Not so many years ago. And now here I was, inside a closed circuit, spinning my wheels. Knowing I wasn't getting anywhere but spinning just the same. I had to. Had to keep that up or I wouldn't be able to survive. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#realization #survival #age

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. ↗

— Yann Martel

#madness #survival #life