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The world gets comfort from their odds. Not Christians. Some count their chariots (percentages of survival) and some count their horses (side effects of treatment), but we trust in the name of the LORD our God
— John Piper
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
— John Updike
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
— Lily Tomlin
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.
— Ariel Sharon
Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization.
— Scot McKnight
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
— Wendell Berry
For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.
— Stephen Jay Gould
After a long time and many questions, Satan said, The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider and eats it; the wildcat kills the goose; the -- well, they all kill each other. It is murder all along the line. Here are countless multitudes of creatures, and they all kill, kill, kill, they are all murderers. And they are not to blame, Divine One?
— Mark Twain
B Y AND BY, WHEN WE GOT UP, WE TURNED OVER THE TRUCK THE GANG had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.
— Mark Twain