#survival

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ↗

— David Hackworth

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We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

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Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival. ↗

— Marilu Henner

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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

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

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