#viv

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. ↗

— Rick Allen

#crash #i #lot #rights #should

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#begins #humanity #man #only #self-interest

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ↗

— William Glasser

#belonging #driven #five #fun #genetic

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#survival

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#fun #great #high #high school #most

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#first #fortitude #i #just #learned

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#survival #beauty

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#identities #key #liberty #modern #modern world