“I have learned the power of surviving.”
Philippa Gregory book The Boleyn Inheritance
Source: The Boleyn Inheritance
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W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) American professor, author, and consultant
Deming: The Way We Knew Him http://books.google.com/books?id=VKBz5RW5yFcC&pg=PA125&dq=%22learning+is+not+compulsory%22+%22+survival%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fcqtUtH0BYbioATs44HQAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBjgy#v=onepage&q=%22learning%20is%20not%20compulsory%22%20%22%20survival%22&f=false (1995) <br class="br">This quote is often cited as “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
“If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Televised address (1976-11-24)
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist
"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4.
“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian
A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, p. 203