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* After all, it has yet to be proved that [[intelligence]] has real survival [[value]]. |
* After all, it has yet to be proved that [[intelligence]] has real survival [[value]]. |
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** [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''The Lost Worlds of 2001'' |
** [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''The Lost Worlds of 2001'' |
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*There walked a lonely man, silent, mute, the only man |
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:Not knowing how, not knowing why was he the sole survivor |
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:Why should he be alive, breathing still while others died |
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:And the only question, why was he the sole survivor? |
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** [[w:Blue Oyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]], ''Sole Survivor'', Fire of unknown origin, lyrics by Erik Bloom, John Trivers, and Liz Myers |
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* Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe, when he landed on his Island, had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact, he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut. |
* Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe, when he landed on his Island, had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact, he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut. |
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* [[Humanity]] will ever seek but never attain [[perfection]]. Let us at least survive and go on trying. |
* [[Humanity]] will ever seek but never attain [[perfection]]. Let us at least survive and go on trying. |
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** [[Dora Russell]], in ''The Religion of the Machine Age'' (1983) |
** [[Dora Russell]], in ''The Religion of the Machine Age'' (1983) |
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* What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. |
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** [[The Joker]] Heath Ledger, [[The Dark Knight]] screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan |
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* The survival of the fittest. |
* The survival of the fittest. |
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Quotes regarding survival.
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Quotes
- After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
- There walked a lonely man, silent, mute, the only man
- Not knowing how, not knowing why was he the sole survivor
- Why should he be alive, breathing still while others died
- And the only question, why was he the sole survivor?
- Blue Oyster Cult, Sole Survivor, Fire of unknown origin, lyrics by Erik Bloom, John Trivers, and Liz Myers
- Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe, when he landed on his Island, had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact, he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
- Will Cuppy (comic interview by Jo Ranson) (November 24, 1929) . "Living from Can to Mouth". Brooklyn Eagle Magazine: 5.
- Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
- Dora Russell, in The Religion of the Machine Age (1983)
- What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
- The Joker Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
- The survival of the fittest.
- Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, III, ch.12 p. 165
