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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.


Raoul Vaneigem

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To survive is to win.
ZHANG YIMOU Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
KARL LAGERFELD I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
WALTER LANG Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
RICHARD ENGEL To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.
JOHN HENRY PATTERSON In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
DANIELLE DARRIEUX Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chi...
ELIOT SCHREFER As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
VICTORIA LEGRAND Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
AYN RAND I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
THALIA To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving the...
EMMANUEL JAL Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable c...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astr...
ANDREA M. GHEZ I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles)...
ARMIE HAMMER Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
BLAKE SHELTON Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is n...
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
MARAT SAFIN I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'
WESLEY SNIPES The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
GARRY SHANDLING Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.
BELA KAROLYI Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not a...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
LARRY WILCOX To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
PAULINE HANSON By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
THEODORE BIKEL I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward heal...
BETH MOORE Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
KōBō ABE 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to su...
YELAWOLF Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
WENDELL MAYES My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some com...
MAYA ANGELOU Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
HANNA ROSIN Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survi...
JAMES LOVELOCK Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
POPE BENEDICT XVI I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
SARAH POLLEY The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
MARK SHAND We can't survive by continuing to do that.
DAVID KYTO I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovieti...
JOSHUA COHEN People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spi...
SUSANNA MOORE This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality ...
SUN YAT-SEN Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an ins...
OSCAR NIEMEYER The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
EDIE CAMPBELL By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive....
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've a...
JAMES ARTHUR Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to surv...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE If you can survive soviet union you will survive anywhere
SUNDAY ADELAJA All she did that night is survive, and it is not against the law to survive. Caryn has the right to ...
BARBARA KESHEN You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.
NELLIE MCKAY I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would rea...
ADAM LEVINE For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not th...
GEORGE A. ROMERO As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to ...
AMOR TOWLES If your idea is big enough, and crazy enough, all you have to do is survive. If you survive, you wil...
LILY CHATTERJEE To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can s...
FRANK ZINDLER To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody'...
ERYKAH BADU People don't realize you have to work two to three jobs here to survive.
KAREN KRAFFT but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
JOHN GREEN We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We...
ALLEN STEELE But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done...
ADAM JOHNSON I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the abil...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE You'll probably die if you stay with me,' he told me.
'Then I'm dead either way, because I won'...
JULIE HOCKLEY Only the strong survive
PROVERB Once you find a more better reality you just get used to that reality and survive!
ARDIT BALISHA Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to w...
RICHIE NORTON The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing li...
CAROL LEWIS It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire a...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we r...
CORRINE BROWN If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it m...
NORMAN COUSINS But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you ...
WOLE SOYINKA The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan ...
SHILPA SHETTY Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all wit...
MICHAEL SHERMER If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start ...
BRIAN REYNOLDS MYERS Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria...
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY The animal is not likely to survive and if it does survive it's going to take a toll on the native w...
HENRY CABBAGE Niche players can have one bad quarter and they don't have the wherewithal to survive that, or at le...
ROBERT WALBERG Only the Paranoid Survive...
ANDREW GROVE To survive, you must tell stories.
UMBERTO ECO Stop. Revive. Survive
MELINA MARCHETTA Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive,
SIMON WIESENTHAL We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth
JOHN GREEN For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to real...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU They didn't survive by eating each other; they survived by being resourceful.
JULIE SCHABLITSKY You must change in order to survive.
PEARL BAILEY The good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Le...
STEPHEN KINZER I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It&#...
RACHEL CORRIE Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you'...
HARRY CHAPIN You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I wer...
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