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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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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

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Marriage
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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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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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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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Survival

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individuals instinct for self preservation. – Albert Einstein

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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. – John Wesley

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Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. – From the movie Naked

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote anothers wit. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. – Dan Birdwell

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