Definition of Survival

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Survival

A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.

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Survival Quotations

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky

Survival Translations

survival in French is survivance
survival in Italian is sopportare, sopportare
survival in Spanish is supervivencia

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