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Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.
- Joseph Campbell
So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives
- Joseph Campbell
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
- Pope John Paul II
The colossal slide of integrity (especially masculine ethics) has grim spiritual, domestic, and political implications which threaten the survival of life as we know it.
- Kent Hughes
There was no water. Food by tons would have no value. You need water to survive. If the ravens brought Elijah filet steaks, fresh vegetables and the best-tasting bread it would have meant nothing.
- RT Kendall
They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
- Jim Bakker
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
- Margaret Atwood
I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.
- Roddy Piper
There is so much of politics in sport that I sometimes wonder how did I survive for such a long time.
- P. T. Usha
If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.
- Gracie Gold
My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life. The Christian, however, has always been willing to subject the Bible to the severest analysis and is able to come out, knowing that it can survive the blade of the skeptic.
- Ravi Zacharias
I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.
- Joseph Heller