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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
Nalini Singh / Author
Preservation
Self
Self Preservation
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Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
Ani Difranco / Singer-Songwriter
Occupation
Self
Self Preservation
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler / Author
Nature
Firsts
Law
Self
Self Preservation
First
First Law
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Important
Preservation
Self
Self Preservation
Important Thing
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Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Margaret Anderson /
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I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
Julian Barnes / Writer
Instinct
Self
Self Preservation
Survival
Survival Instinct
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I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
Danielle De Niese /
Care
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Take Care
Take
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I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Self Preservation
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Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.
Steve Schmidt / Strategist
Instinct
Self Preservation
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Dan Webster /
Ideas
Self Preservation
Successful
Making
Principle
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Andrew Marvell / Poet
Fear
Men
Awe
Creatures
Law
Self
Self Preservation
Nature Great Man
Doth
Except
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We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.
Sam Levinson /
Lust
Self Preservation
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh / Writer
Wisdom
Gifted
Instinct
Rich
Self
Self Preservation
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Among
Passes
Sharp
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Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.
Seth Moulton /
Doing The Right Thing
Instinct
Right Thing
Self Preservation
Be The First
The Right Thing
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti / Poet
Death
Appetite
Glory
Innate
Insatiable
Instinct
Sacrifice
Self
Self Preservation
Leads
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When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.
Chris Fussell /
Doom
Mentality
Self Preservation
Collective
Sure Sign
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Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
Trinny Woodall / Fashion Designer
Appearance
Bottom
Careers
Children
Self
Self Preservation
Scale
Preserving
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Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Philip Roth / Novelist
Obstinacy
Saved
Self Preservation
Life Me Talent
Feat
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell / Writer
Consciousness
Hero
Heroic
Self
Self Preservation
Thinking
Transformation
Primarily
Quit
Undergo
Truly
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes / Philosopher
Friendship
Men
Ardent
Former
Good Friend
Latter
Needs
Self Preservation
Enemies
Good Friends
Man Needs
Task
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People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.
Dana Loesch /
Belief
Greater
Greater Good
Self Preservation
Time Good Always
Time Good People
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Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.
David Grinspoon /
Behaviour
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Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
Brandon Stanton / Photographer
Agency
Hands
Normal
Past
Proactive
Process
Self Preservation
Past Your People
General
Interviewing
Mode
Requires
Taking
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Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.
Hoda Kotb / Tv Host
Self Preservation
Weird
Check
Weird Thing
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Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.
Claudia Rankine / Poet
Black
Mourning
Self Preservation
Dead
Fight
Earlier
Forgetting
Front
Unlike
Refuses
Tried
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Backdrop
Demand
Matter
Not Interested
Self
Self Preservation
Static
Writers
Hell Is
Intensely
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Bertha Von Suttner / Novelist
Annihilation
Destruction
Human Mind
Human Society
Humanity
Instinct
Refined
Self Preservation
Constantly
Drives
Rebelling
Subconsciously
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Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
Ann Coulter / Commentator
America
Differences
Hussein
Irrelevant
Matter
Saddam
Self
Self Preservation
Soviet
Soviet Union
Against
Defending
Difference
Either
Idiots
Liberals
Union
Saddam Hussein
Traitors
Whether
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At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work.
Tarana Burke /
Sacrifice
Self Preservation
Totality
Work Me Start
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The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.
Louis Sullivan / Architect
Men
Assumption
Core
Mean
Sacrifice
Salvation
Self Preservation
Slave
Suppression
Life Faith Man
External
Concept
Master
Feudal
Internal
Poisoned
Urge
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Action
Clear
Confusion
Endless
Features
Foresight
Repetition
Self
Self Preservation
Simple
Strikes
Thinking
Act
Constitute
Counsel
Effective
Emergency
Gong
Jarring
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Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.
Ron Hall /
Scare
Self Preservation
Love Time Fear
Mode
Showing
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For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
Stacy Schiff / Author
Women
Deception
Disguise
Female
Made
Physicians
Powerlessness
Seems
Self Preservation
Years
Male
Game
Became
Before
Woman
Times
Firefighters
Millennia
Several
Snare
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Zero-Sum
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My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.
Chesty Puller /
Loyalty
Patriotism
Legion
Marine
Marine Corps
Military
Self Preservation
Up And Down
Believed
Both Ways
Case
Corps
Definition
Travels
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Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
Noah Feldman / Author
Marriage
Available
Concern
Continuity
Holocaust
Information
Membership
Memories
Obvious
Orthodox
Practice
Self
Self Preservation
Social
Traditional
Jewish
Becomes
Itself
Combined
Public
Intensified
Readily
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