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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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We are powerful because we have survived.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 139
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