Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.
I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.
The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.
I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.
Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.
What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture.
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.
There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.
They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.
Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.
I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.
As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
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