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So I felt this burning summer. In form I might belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a ravenous self-destroying horde of rats. I am glad there is no God. If there were, I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and insatiably self-centred creatures should be allowed to survive a single day more

She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Some ? a very small percentage, we believe ? did not survive the storm. A larger number are kids who are probably with mom or dad or grandma, but other family members don't know where they are. We think they're safe, they just haven't been in touch with the rest of the family yet.

She refused to be denied. Wilcox put a lot of pressure on us and to be able to survive that helps us be a better team.

Molecules are fossils, too. We've shown that proteins survive in very old fossils, and proteins can tell us about diseases, about where prehistoric animals fit in the food chain, what they ate and who they are related to.

May your love be modern enough to survive the times and old-fashioned enough to last forever!

Mayan cosmology contains within it the explanation for our current global transformation, and possibilities for how we can survive it.

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.

One of the things that gives me comfort is that these people have restaurants in Las Vegas, Orlando and elsewhere -- that they have the wherewithal to survive this,

My golf swing is out of sync. I've been hitting a lot of pull hooks. That's really caused me a lot of troubles. You can't survive on the tour playing out of the thick stuff. You need to hit fairways.

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

Maybe they'll take off if everything is just right. Most of the time, they don't ... We've been lucky because in Arizona our climatic conditions, our soils are so different and so extreme that not many things that are tropical are going to be able to survive here.

Now that companies know what the worst-case scenario is, they are asking themselves, 'could we survive this?' ... Almost every company out there is rethinking what they are doing.

No business model at any airline can survive with sustained jet-fuel prices of $90 to $100 a barrel.

No business model at any airline can survive sustained jet-fuel prices at this level.

No business could survive this trend without grave consequences to its operation.

Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.

Niche players can have one bad quarter and they don't have the wherewithal to survive that, or at least survive it easily.

Nobody in Washington can survive if he's not political.

New York didn't create this mess, but we have the power to help people survive it.

nearly half of them will have to survive on $2 a day or less.

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

If they'd reported these burns immediately, he would have been taken to a burn center and treated. It's a question for the medical examiner whether he could have been saved. We've certainly seen people survive burns before with proper treatment.

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

I don't know that Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Every time they do this, they lose more customers.

I am concerned about the fate of the bill. Although many of its policies are sound, I am not confident that most will survive a conference with the House.

I am disappointed at losing that late goal but we will survive in this division if we continue in that kind of form. But our lads need to believe in themselves a bit more.

Certainly he should have been taken to a hospital and he wasn't. Certainly, people do survive severe burns, but they need to get to a burn center. In this case that care was deliberately denied.

But that doesn't imply the end of special-purpose accelerators. Today we use accelerators for specific, well-defined functions like encryption or error correction in conjunction with processor clusters. I think a completely 'clean' cluster of processors without specialized hardware would not survive in the market.

Buttercup: That's the fire swamp! We'll never survive Wesley: Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has.

Buttercup: That's the fire swamp! We'll never survive Wesley: Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

I felt marvelous about that because she's equally wanting to see others thrive because that's real love. You know real love, if you boil down to the bottom line is: the desire to see someone survive and thrive.

I felt great. I told them that this was our game to win. If we can survive a half like that, we should win this game. They just played better than us in the second half and that's all I can say.

I felt like the hope that I have (to survive cancer) will go all the way to heaven.

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

I can't even pay the rent out of that. Nobody can survive on $5.50 an hour. We all need to pay rent, buy groceries and take care of our families.

If organized labor is going to survive and thrive in the future, we have to change our tactics and be creative.

Given the massive catastrophe losses absorbed by insurers in nine-months 2005, the increase in income and surplus during the first three quarters of the year is a testament to the underlying financial health of the industry. But we can't afford to lose sight of the fact that, as bad as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were, insurers and the public remain exposed to far more devastating catastrophes that could strain insurers' ability to fulfill their obligations to policyholders. According to PCS, Hurricane Katrina caused a record $38.1 billion in direct insured losses to property. But catastrophe modeling by AIR Worldwide shows we face the prospect of hurricanes causing more than $100 billion in damage. Even as we applaud insurers' success coping with the catastrophes of 2005, we must do more to assure that insurers and the people they serve will survive when even more devastating storms strike.

Given the complexity and paradox of family business environment, how is that some firms manage to survive beyond centuries? Family businesses are under threat from both the sides, family as well as business.

From very early on I thought these systems would have great educational applications, ... I think there are possibilities, but I can't tell you if it would be profitable. I'm not sure they could survive in terms of a business model.

Forty-nine other states have taxes that survive without the Single Business Tax. There are lots of other ways to get it done.

Global warming and rising temperatures in the Arctic jeopardize the polar bear's very existence. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice. Polar bears could disappear in our lifetime if we don't take action.

If we survive the first session without losing too many wickets then we can go for the chase. The pitch is not doing much and there's good bounce, so the batsmen can play their shots.

If we wish to preserve the diversity of natural ecosystem processes, we must preserve the larger ecosystems where the longest food chains are found, ... As ecosystem size decreases (e.g., through the fragmentation of forest patches), we may see the loss of large, often rare, top predators. Those top predators that can survive in smaller ecosystems will likely feed lower in the food chain, which may alter the feeding relations and community structure through out the food web.

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

If that isn't applying our ethos, I don't know what is. The very skills needed to survive at Burning Man are the skills needed to respond to a disaster.

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There's going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

He experienced every emotion. He pitches well at times. He learned to battle and survive at times. He didn't back down from anything. He carried his load.

He doesn't want to change a winning team and I think Jones will probably survive in the side - but that doesn't mean he's right.

He loved his family. I just don't know how he's going to survive without them.

There is no crisis, ... The ability of the government to survive was never in danger.

There is growing evidence across the nation that shows early diagnosis and treatment of patients dramatically improves their ability to survive a stroke and fully recover.

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

To eradicate or modify or curb the tendencies which thus survive among civilized men is not a matter of intellectual conviction or training.

What we have discovered is that it is very hard to survive as a little Mom and Pop winery. And we knew we had to come up with a lot of different ideas to make the business successful. You had to get bigger.

Haywood Builders, Danny Wingate and their sales staff and everybody associated with that company has been nothing but upright and professional. Everything about the company is top notch. This community couldn't survive without them.

(Having to survive after losing a match) has been my story the whole year. If I lose one more, I'm done. So I just have to fight hard the whole way through.

Good hitters make adjustments and he has been making adjustments. You don't do that, you're not going to survive at this level, but he's been doing that.

There are no perfect games in the NCAA Tournament. It's just survive and advance. The bottom line is we're not going home. I was sleepwalking this morning. But you know you have to get up and do it again today.

He wanted to be remembered as a famous serial killer, but I hope he is forgotten and that we only remember his victims and the families that survive them.

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

He'd be finding it very difficult to survive outside dressed like that,

I would say this is all about principle. The principle here was to protect the postseason and preseason NIT and to keep it in New York. ... It will actually enhance the events and give them a greater chance to survive and be strong.

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake up in the morning, and they have a bottom line. This is how much they make, this is how much their expenses are; they certainly need to break even just to stay in business, and they need to make a profit in order to survive long-term.

I think that he's just trying to survive day-by-day, because his days are numbered.

I think that people have to be able to see two sides of the coin to survive because it is a racist society and yet you're being raised by racists.

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

I think you'll see that hunger and that desperation in the playoffs. But the trick is, you have to make the playoffs. You have to take care of business and survive the grind of the regular season.

I thought she was dead. I didn't think she'd survive that.

I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.

It goes to show that proper planning, being able to weather the inevitable ups and downs of the business, is vital. Those that do survive bankruptcy addressed their costs and strategic issues in a comprehensive manner. That's how Continental approached its restructuring.

I think that will be one of the keys to the season, will we survive if we lose two games, three games, maybe even five? ... The problem nowadays with the Internet and talk radio -- all of a sudden everyone's getting down on you, and your confidence can go down.

I think the way you survive as a teacher is that you teach the kids so damn well that they are going to do well on tests anyway.

It is a readjustment. We're going to stay here and I think we will survive this, but it won't be easy." ()

It is best to include plants that will survive the wet and dry of the area. I would recommend natives.

People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.

Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

Our science programs are a result of the fact that when Elephant Thoughts became a new charity we knew in order to survive in the charitable arena we would do far better to create products that we could sell to generate some revenue to fulfill our mandate. As a teacher-based organization the answer to what type of product was simple, they must be educational therefore something we believe in.

Our fear also is for the tens of thousands of other people across the Coast that has the exact same camper. And the long term implications are, you survive Katrina only for ten years down the road only to have throat cancer, nose cancer or some other kind of aliment.

Our bye week doesn't come until week 10. If we survive that long with all the injuries coming our way.

Playing for Coach Lauro really made you feel prepared for college. That's a scary feeling when you're a 17-year-old kid leaving New Castle to go to Virginia Tech, but you just knew you were prepared because he worked you so hard you were going to survive that.

Passing on to younger generations the memories and the will of those who suffered the bombing is the most important step for humankind to survive in the 21st century,

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Survival. Whether it's one point or 10 points, in a tournament like this you just want to survive and move on to the next round.

My theme is survival, and that's even before we are where we are. You're trying to survive and trying to claw your way to New York City.

My next biggest challenge is to survive another night with Freddie.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate. Along the way, many people said it would never work. We've heard that we couldn't survive before -- when we had 700,000 members, and when we had 17 million members. Today we have more than 50 million members, and we'll all find a way to keep this community growing.

Nah, I don't do many now. I used to when I first come back from Colorado (after getting fired as coach.) I used to do this every day to survive but I don't have to do it now. I do maybe three or four or five a year.

Looking ahead, we continue on track to build Schering- Plough into a company with the strength and breadth to deliver long-term high performance. We are moving from survive mode into thrive mode.

Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.

Marquette is a very fast and disciplined hockey team and they gave us a lot of trouble. We had a solid game plan, but didn't execute it. Plus, we had 12 minor penalties and you can't survive against a team like Marquette with that many penalties.

I think he would probably term (his outing) as inconsistent. I don't think he's happy with the (three) walks and the deep counts. But being able to survive and keep the lead, I think he'll settle for that.