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Self Preservation Quotes

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Thomas Jefferson
"Fear can be good. It’s an evolutionary sense that we’ve developed over many, many millions of years."
Helen Mirren
"Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone"
Thomas Hobbes
"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life"
Thomas Hobbes
"The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all"
Soren Kierkegaard
"Even snakes are afraid of snakes."
Steven Wright
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force to take away his life"
Thomas Hobbes
"The secret of my success is that I'm still alive "
Willie Nelson
"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
Benjamin Franklin
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