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Quote by Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is,

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall

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

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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. – Elie Wiesel

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. – Jonathan Swift

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