#viv

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #depends #every #existence #good

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#survival #food

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ↗

— May Sarton

#pain #survival #business

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe. ↗

— Joseph Banks

#europe #knows #may #new #new south wales

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#learning #neither #survival

We have to fight sometimes to survive. ↗

— Jan Berry

#sometimes #survive #to survive

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#change #intelligent #most #nor #species

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary people #more

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#learn #less #more #people #sometimes

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had