"If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?"

-- Peter Singer

#Struggle Quotes #Survival Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Starships are all work and no fun.”
“I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.”
“In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.”

Source : John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.38, Macmillan
“It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.”
“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”
“I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.”
“The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse
“I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.”

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