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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS It's getting to the point of survival for the human species on the planet.
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MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s...
NIGEL HAMILTON Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luc...
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LEON C. MEGGINSON The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
ANNE FRANK Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It’s a dangerous world and I have survived for 72 years by listening to what people are not saying...
BOBBY W. MILLER There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.
CARY CAFFREY A politician is a man in his natural state
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.
MICHAEL FROME Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race ...
MARTI OLSEN LANEY Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibriu...
AYN RAND In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Ev...
ABHIJIT NASKAR He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of ...
JACK LONDON Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-...
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SCOTT MCCLOUD All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or interna...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the surviva...
FIDEL CASTRO When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest.
TOBA BETA The streets will teach you about racism and capitalism and survival of the fittest. Don't worry abou...
SNOOP DOGG It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he s...
JACK FROST We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for su...
SARAH CASTILLE In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
DAVID PIETRUSZA The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent t...
AYN RAND Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the ...
P. D. JAMES Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
RICHARD LEVINS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
ROBERT HOLDEN ...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and ge...
E.J. DIONNE JR. I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as stor...
PIERS ANTHONY As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its o...
FIDEL CASTRO It is the manifest Destiny of man, nay it is our duty. We must take to the stars to ensure our survi...
JOVIAN KRYNICKI The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new sp...
MICHAEL SMITH All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the act...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.
RICHARD POMBO Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would ...
IAN WILMUT How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Afri...
CONRAD ANKER Without protection of the endangered species act we would have lost hundreds of additional species i...
DANIEL PATTERSON The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.
TOBA BETA Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs on...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The spirit finds a way to be born.
Instinct seeks for ways to survive.
TOBA BETA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
LIU XIAOBO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify...
EDWARD O. WILSON People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was ...
FRANCES HARDINGE Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. Cities are the abyss of the human species.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
BERNARD MARCUS Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in maki...
ERIC HOFFER Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
TRAVIS BARKER Living in your genome is the history of our species.
BARRY SCHULER The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. COETZEE The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is natu...
IVAN URLAUB The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in ...
C. JOYBELL C. We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ...
C. JOYBELL C. What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
ABERJHANI I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.
CAROLINE GEORGE Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally ac...
HARRIET MCBRYDE JOHNSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with...
ALEX SANCHEZ Americans are entitled to the full rights of Englishmen, including representation in the decisions o...
HUGH WILLIAMSON Southern Resident killer whales have been integral to the ecological, social, and economic well bein...
BRENT PLATER It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true...
DAMON KNIGHT I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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RICHARD DAWKINS I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically sp...
ALBERT MURRAY Loneliness has been described as a chronic disease with no redeeming features. But it is very import...
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a politica...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.