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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
-Dr. W. Edwards Deming

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
-George Orwell

"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it."
-Richard M. Nixon

"It has yet to be proven ... that intelligence has any survival value."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
-Herbert Spencer

"This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
-Herbert Spencer

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
-Akiro Kirosawa

"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."
-Maya Angelou

"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."
-Grace Paley

"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."
-Herman Melville

"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

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
-Stephen Hawking

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."
-Adlai Stevenson

"Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe."
-Andrew Marvell

"Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival."
-W. Edwards Deming

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